A visual journey through two centuries of history: this book collects 100 iconic photographs that captured crucial moments in human history. From world wars to space exploration, civil rights movements to climate change, each image is a window into the past, present, and even a possible future. Taken by legendary photographers or anonymous witnesses of their time, these pictures showcase the powerful storytelling ability of photography as a tool of collective memory. A striking, emotional, and visually rich volume—this updated edition of a bestselling classic brings history into sharp focus for today’s readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
100 photographs that changed the world: a powerful visual narrative of humanity through the images that shaped our history.
1869 The Transcontinental Railroad
\n1889 The Eiffel Tower and the Expo
\n1895 The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station
\n1901 Wireless Telegraph Across the Atlantic
\n1903 The First Flight
\n1908 The Struggle for Female Suffrage
\n1909 The First Flight Over the Channel
\n1909 Robert Peary at the North Pole
\n1911 Conquest of the South Pole
\n1912 Great Loss of Life
\n1913 The First Moving Assembly Line
\n1915 Gas Attacks in the First World War
\n1917 Assault on the Winter Palace
\n1920 Lenin’s Speech to the Red Army
\n1922 Opening of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
\n1927 The First Solo Transatlantic Flight
\n1929 The Great Depression
\n1930 Gandhi and the Salt March
\n1936 Migrant Mother
\n1936 Falling Soldier
\n1936 Nazi Party Rally
\n1937 The Explosion of the Airship Hindenburg
\n1941 Churchill Among the Ruins of Parliament
\n1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
\n1943 Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto
\n1944 Allied Troops Land on Omaha Beach
\n1945 The Yalta Conference
\n1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima
\n1945 Jewish Survivors in Buchenwald
\n1945 The Nagasaki Atomic Explosion
\n1945 V–J Day in Times Square
\n1945 Mother and Child in Hiroshima
\n1947 From Colonialism to Independence for India
\n1948 The SS United Nations Lands in Palestine
\n1948 The Berlin Air Bridge
\n1949 Mao Zedong Declares the Foundation of the PRC
\n1953 The Double Helix Model of DNA
\n1953 Hillary and Tenzing on the Summit of Everest
\n1953 The Coronation of Elizabeth II
\n1956 Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience
\n1959 Fidel Castro Entering Havana
\n1959 Tibetan Rebels Surrender to Chinese Troops
\n1961 The First Man in Space
\n1961 The Berlin Wall
\n1963 The Sacrifice of Thich Quang Duc
\n1963 I Have a Dream
\n1963 John F. Kennedy’s Funeral
\n1965 The Beatles at Buckingham Palace
\n1966 Reaching Out
\n1967 Six Day War
\n1967 Girl Holding a Flower
\n1968 The Execution of a Vietcong
\n1968 The Funeral of Martin Luther King
\n1968 French May
\n1968 The Invasion of Prague
\n1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
\n1969 Man on the Moon
\n1969 The Woodstock Festival
\n1972 Bloody Sunday
\n1972 The Terror of War
\n1979 Khomeini Returns to Iran
\n1979 The Killing Fields in Cambodia
\n1980 John Lennon’s Murder
\n1981 The Space Shuttle Columbia Launch
\n1981 The Assassination Attempt on Pope John Paul II
\n1984 Steve Jobs and the Macintosh 128k
\n1985 Reagan and Gorbachev at the Geneva Summit
\n1986 The Explosion of the Chernobyl Reactor
\n1986 Veiled Women Practicing Shooting
\n1989 The Exxon Valdez Environmental Disaster
\n1989 Tank Man
\n1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
\n1990 The Liberation of Nelson Mandela
\n1991 The First Intifada
\n1991 Burning Oil Wells
\n1991 Tim Berners-Lee and the Invention of the Web
\n1991 Landing of Albanian Refugees in Bari
\n1993 Vulture Stalking a Child
\n1993 Signing of the Oslo Peace Accords
\n1996 The AIDS Memorial Quilt
\n1999 The Plight of Kosovo Refugees
\n2001 Afghan Refugee Camp in Pakistan
\n2001 Ground Zero
\n2003 An Iraqi Prisoner with His Son
\n2003 The Destruction of the Statue of Saddam Hussein
\n2008 The Wall Street Crash
\n2009 Barack Obama
\n2011 The Arab Spring in Cairo
\n2012 The Anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre
\n2014 Malala Yousafzai Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
\n2015 The March After the Charlie Hebdo Attack
\n2015 Selfie by Curiosity on Mars
\n2015 Refugees Landing on Lesbos
\n2019 Notre-Dame Burns
\n2020 Pope Francis’ Covid Prayers
\n2021 Escape from Kabul
\n2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
\n2023 New York City Engulfed in Flames
\n2023 Pietà, Gaza
\n2024 Assassination Attempt on Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":67841,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21063,5485],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67840","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"product_cat-photography","8":"author-text-by-gianni-morelli","9":"author-text-by-margherita-giacosa","10":"author-text-by-roberto-mottadelli","11":"publisher-white-star","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n