World’s Famous Photography

V-J Day in Times Square (August 14, 1945)

The photograph portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in Times Square in New York City

A starving boy and a missionary (1980)

In April 1980, a white preacher in northeastern Uganda holds the similarly minor hand of a starving African kid.

Mother and child in Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945

Photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula)

The photo has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci's work of art of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World's Third World Mona Lisa".

Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson

Photograph taken by Dorothea Lange (1936)
Migrant Mother, is an iconic image of the Great Depression.