Do All Things With Love Photography by Luke Taylor: November 2011

From the very first photograph, photos have been a huge part of our life's and

the world. I believe photos are responsible for changing a lot in modern

society and are a very powerful influence on the powers that be as well as

everybody else. Here are 15 photos that are responsible for a lot of those

changes.. I found this article whilst researching for this post and thought it

was brilliant. The photos in it are some of the most famous and in some cases

most graphic but in the end they have changed our world in which we live.

First Photograph Ever Taken – View From the Window of Le Gras France

The very first permanent photograph which was destroyed by accident later, was an image produced in 1822 by French inventor Joseph Niepce. View from the Window at Le Gras was the first permanent photograph created by Nicephore Niepce in 1826. Sunlight can be seen illuminating the buildings on each side of the grainy photo.

Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi

The image of four marines struggling to raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Japan is the most widely printed photograph of World War II. Taken by a U.S. Marine photographer under heavy Japanese fire in early 1945, the photo depicts America’s determination to take possession of the island. Photo by Joe Rosenthal

Afghan Girl

Taken in 1984 by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, the world famous shot of 12 year old Sharbat Gula captured the attention of the world with her unforgettably beautiful eyes and innocence amid widespread war and turmoil surrounding her.

Looking Down Sacramento Street

Taken on the morning of April 18, 1906, this photograph was taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco, California following the devastating earthquake that nearly destroyed the entire city and which sparked the great fire that engulfed the west coast American community.

Breaker Boys

Taken in 1910 in Pennsylvania of breaker boys, or children who were forced to work separating coal from slate. This photograph assisted in leading America to ban child labor. Photographer: Lewis Hine.

The Lynching of Young Blacks

A photograph taken in 1930 in the state of Indiana, USA after two young black men were hung. The two were accused of raping a white girl and were lynched by a mob of ten thousand whites. The faces on the people in the crowd depict clearly what the sentiment was towards blacks during those days. Photographer: Lawrence Beitler

Migrant Mother

Deemed the one photograph that gave a face to the Great Depression, legendary photographer Dorthea Lange snapped this shot in 1936 of a pea-picking migrant worker and her children in rural California. The woman in the picture’s name is Florence Thompson, mother of seven whose husband died of tuberculosis. The family sustained themselves by eating birds killed by her children and vegetables taken from a nearby field.

Hitler in Paris

Hitler’s army had just captured Paris when Hitler went there to admire his newly acquired city. This powerful photograph was taken in June of 1940.

The Last Jew in Vinnista

This chilling photograph was discovered in a personal photo album of an Einsatzgruppen soldier. There were twenty-eight thousand Jews living in Vinnista at the time and all were killed. The man in the photograph is about to lose his life as well. The photograph was taken in the summer of 1941.

VJ Day

Probably one of the most famous photographs taken during World War II, this shot was snapped in New York City in June of 1945. The couple was celebrating the end of the war in Times Square and were captured on film by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The couple’s identity was never confirmed, although many people have come forward to say it was them.

The Body of Che Guevara

This famous photograph was taken after Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was killed by the Bolivian army in 1967. His death was detrimental to the socialist revolutionary movement in both Latin America and the Third World. Photo by Freddy Alborta.

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla

Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer, just happened to be passing by when he snapped this photograph in Vietnam in 1968 of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, national police chief of South Vietnam shooting and killing a Viet Cong army captain. This photo turned public opinion against the war and won Adams a Pulitzer Prize.

moon landing

Possibly the most talked-about, debated and controversial picture in history, the picture of the moon landing has been seen as a feat of human engineering at its best, and has been speculated as a hoax by contractors of the event. Those in doubt of the authenticity of the picture have come up with many suggestions as to why and how it might have been faked. However, none of the accusations have been proved correct and the debate continues in some circles. For many, though, it provides a sense of accomplishment and achievement by the human race to send a man to the moon, which for years was considered an impossibility. The American flag also installs national pride in the US as the winners of the so-called ‘Space Race’, and their establishment as the world’s one remaining super power

Footprint on the Moon

When U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in July of 1969, he and his comrades had television cameras with them. This is a shot of the first human footprint on the Moon, which will remain there for millions of years. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin took this photograph that astounded the world.

Tiananmen Square Protester

Without a doubt, this photograph of one single defiant person blocking tanks from emerging onto the square tells the story of the radical student rebellion that occurred in China in 1989. The man was spared, but soon the square filled with people and much blood was shed. Photographer: Stuart Franklin

Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

"If your pictures aren’t good enough," war photographer Robert Capa used to say, "you
aren’t close enough." After all, his most memorable shots were taken on the morning of D-
Day, June 6, 1944, when he landed alongside the first waves of infantry at Omaha Beach.
Caught under heavy fire, Capa dove for what little cover he could find, then shot all the film

in his camera, and got out. Of the four rolls of film Capa took of the horrific D-Day battle,
all but 11 exposures were ruined by an overeager lab assistant, who melted the film in his
rush to develop it. There were deadlines to meet... In an ironic twist, however, that same
mistake gave the few surviving exposures their famously surreal look.