Iconic photograph  

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Iconic photographs are photographs of iconic status. Photography is largely a 20th and 21st century phenomenon and fame in the 20th century was recorded mainly by this means.

List of iconic photographs

• The Falling Soldier
• Train wreck at Montparnasse
• Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville by Robert Doisneau
• Tennis Girl
• A Child at Gunpoint
• Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation
• General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon
• V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt

See also

• Works of art in the collective unconscious
• Expensive photo