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  • Rated by BrenParks on Oct 31, 9:08am

    What makes this collection so special is the well written narratives about each image. Wonderfully done collection of world changing photos and a fabulous read!

  • Rated by AniDee47 on Oct 24, 2:43pm

    Great photographers, great photos.

  • Reviewed by 5tumbler on Oct 23, 9:03am

    #3... Mathew Brady is one of the first examples of a "documentary" photographer staging a scene for emotional and dramatic impact...michael moore style

  • Rated by Auron74 on Oct 23, 2:55am

    "Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania"Mathew Brady, 1863

  • Rated by george316 on Sep 18, 12:29pm

    brilliant photos. and no they dont suck vineetcoolguy you absolute cretin!

  • Rated by vineetcoolguy on Jul 16, 4:34am

    Most of these suck. And none of them would be in my list of greatest photographs.

  • Rated by squiffy2 on Jul 06, 11:37pm

    As era-defining photographs go, "Migrant Mother" pretty much takes the cake. For many, Florence Owens Thompson is the face of the Great Depression, thanks to legendary shutterbug Dorothea Lange. Lange captured the image while visiting a dusty California pea-pickers' camp in February 1936, and in doing so, captured the resilience of a proud nation facing desperate times. Unbelievably, Thompson's story is as compelling as her portrait. Just 32 years old when Lange approached her ("as if drawn by a magnet," Lange said). Thompson was a mother of seven who'd lost her husband to tuberculosis. Stranded at a migratory labor farm in Nipomo, Calif. her family sustained themselves on birds killed by her kids and vegetables taken from a nearby field - as meager a living as any earned by the other 2,500 workers there. The photo's impact was staggering. Reproduced in newspapers everywhere, Thompson's haunted face triggered an immediate public outcry, quickly prompting politicos from the federal Resettlement Administration to send food and supplies. Sadly, however, Thompson and her family had already moved on, receiving nary a wedge of government cheese for their high-profile misery. In fact, no one knew the identity of the photographed woman until Thompson revealed herself years later in a 1976 newspaper article.

  • Rated by thattimkid on Oct 26 2008, 5:52am

    Photographs that changed the world.

  • Rated by Britney90210 on Oct 25 2008, 1:03pm

    Whoa.