July 2008
A shameful picture. On a beach at Naples in Italy, two young Roma, the 14-years-old Violet and 16-years-old Christina, dive into the sea to be refreshing. Drowning but swimming and do not know. The carcasses are transported and remain for 3 hours on the beach. Bathers located nearby, unperturbed and impassive, continue swimming and sunbathing them, as if it is human corpses, but the algae that washed up from sea.

Damaskus 2006
A Syrian 7-years-old sell sweets on the street, but also read and courses. The Wasim Kheir Beik who took the photo, had difficulties with the
small and did not want never photographed. The Wasim Kheir Beik, had to removed within 30 meters from the small to the «steal» this
photography. The photo was awarded first prize by the Union of Arab News agencies in 2007.

December 2004
On December 26, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that killed 230.000 thousands of people in Indian Ocean.

Sierra Leone 2005
A small boy helps the mutilated father to get dressed.
The photograph was taken by Yannis Kontos and won first prize in World
Press Photo 2005 in the category «Modern Issues» (Contemporary Issues).

USA 2004
The small Iraqi Saleh, who has been maimed by U.S. bomb in Iraq hospitalized in Oakland, California, to make
corrective surgery. The other children begin to fooling the appearance and the boy disrupted. Nurses to the calm
blend on the mutilated hand, a pencil. Little Saleh then paint an airplane throwing bombs. The photo was taken by Deanne Fitzmaurice and honored with Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

31 March 2003
One Iraqi prisoner tries to calm the terrorized child, located together in the prisoners of war camp in An Najaf, in Iraq.

2003 Monrovia
A boy walks on a street full of shells of bullets,
leaves behind him in the civil war Liberia. The photograph was taken by Carolyn Cole and was honored with Pulitzer Prize in 2004.

23 June 2002
After the devastating earthquake in Iran, a child surrounded by villagers and soldiers sitting in front of the tomb of his father and crying, holding in his hands a piece of the pants. The photo taken from Eric Gregorian.

11 September 2001 A man jumps in a vacuum, in desperate efforts to save after the attack on the «twin towers».

11 September 2001
The attack on the «twin towers», the World Trade Center in New York.

June 2001
The Danish photographer, Erik Refner, gets permission from the father of a dead child from Afghanistan to attend the burial of preparation and take some photos in Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan.

2001
The photograph of a supermarket shelf, is the most expensive
February 2007 in the House auction at Sotheby's London.
The photograph entitled «99 Cent II Diptych», taken by German photographer
Andreas Gursky, sold over the price of $ 3,340,456.

Palestine 2000
Although not a photograph but shot from film,
However, the scene depicted is still shocking.
The Palestinian Jamil ad-Durra, trying desperately to protect the body of the 12-years-old son, Mohammed, the Israeli soldiers fire. The barrel behind which try to hide it is not enough to
protect and few seconds later the boy fell dead in his arms father, who has been injured too severely. A Palestinian ambulance driver who arrives to the receipt, and he fell dead from Israeli fire.

Albania 1999
In a Kosovar refugee camp, the Akim Shala 2-years-old passed through the barbed wire to reach in the arms of grandfather. The photograph was taken by Carol Guzy and was honored with Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

University of Massachusetts 1997
One photo shows a laboratory mouse with a human ear in back, causing stir in animals particular organizations, but also to scientific community. In fact the ear, the only human who has more, it is only
shape, which created Dr. Charles Vacanti cartilage cells from cows. The purpose of the experiment was the creation of organs for transplantation.

Rwanda in June 1994
A man belonging to the tribe Hutus tortured and mutilated by the military that is accused in friendly
rival tribe of rebel Tutsis.

March 1993
The photographer, Kevin Carter, a trip to Sudan, is facing a random
creepy scene. A vulture lurk behind a depleted girl waiting time to be dead. The Carter is waiting for 20 minutes, we opened the vulture
wings, making the photo more impressive. Eventually feels frustrated and «Compatible» with the image, which gave him the Pulitzer Prize. The Carter, who committed suicide a few months later, accused of inhuman behavior, and furthermore after the shoot, after the vulture, left without help the girl, who ultimately saved intervention by others.

15 August 1993
H photographer Matuschka has undergone a mastectomy and imigymni Photograph to insert the magazine «Glamour Magazine» the New York Times.

November 1992
A mother lifting Somalia in the hands of the lifeless body of her child, who died of malnutrition.

May 1990
In the University Hospital of Ohio of the United States, Therese Frare reflects the
lens of the last moments of dying and infected by the virus of AIDS, activist David Kirby.Next is his father, sister and niece of the. The photo fist published in the November 1990 issue of Life, but became world famous when used in advertising of Benetton in 1991 causing a stir. The photograph was in the World Press Photo Award in 1991.

9 November 1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall is now a fact.
The symbol of the Cold War lives crumble after 28 years.

4 June 1989
The tanks heading towards the square, while Tien If Beijing, where demonstration for democracy in order to punish (as I was). A demonstrator is unknown, the courage and standing in front of them.

South Korea 1987
A mother beg the security forces to forgive
and to leave her son, who was arrested after participating in the course protest against rigging in general elections.

September 1986.
The Ken Meeks became the first patient with AIDS, whose public photos with obvious signs of illness on it (Kapozi sarcoma). The photo was taken 3 days before his death, by Alon Reininger, who learned the subject from the partner of Meeks (visible in the background).

22 June 1986
Perhaps the most hotly «false» goal in the history of football.
In the crucial match Argentina-England in the World Cup Football conducted in Mexico, Diego Maradona achieve the goals using intelligent hand. After the match Maradona says he was «the hand of God» to put the goals.

13 November 1985
This is 13-years-old Omayra Sanchez trapped for 3 days in water among debris after a disaster, caused by the explosion of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia Armero. The photograph was taken by photographer Frank Fournier, a few hours before the girl died by gangrene (had trapped his legs) and hypothermia.

Pakistan 1984
The photographer Steve McCurry, of photographs for National Geographic
12-years-old an orphaned refugee from Afghanistan, Sharbat Gula, a victim of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The beautiful green eyes will make known world as «the girl from Afghanistan». In January 2002, a group of National Geographic, decides to find the Sharbat Gula. To identify the Afghanistan and identify the method of biometrical analysis of the iris mesh. Photographs for the second time now 30-years-old Sharbat. These 2photographs are the only ones made in the lives of Sharbat Gula.

30 October 1983
The Kezban Özer crying in front of 5 children dead, victims of the devastating earthquake in eastern Turkey.

30 March 1981
The attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley.

23 February 1981
Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina and members of militias and military police, holding hostage members of the Spanish parliament in Madrid.
With the threat of arms, speaks to the audience why.

April 1980
A missionary in bony hand holding a starving child in Uganda.

August 1977
The Elvis Presley in the coffin. The photograph was hidden by cousin and sold over petty price magazine.

22 July 1975
A building in the Boston U.S. fire. When the building starts to collapse, a mother with her daughter pidane vacuum out the window. His mother was killed by the fall of while the little girl survived and fell on the body of her mother.

11 September 1973
The democratically elected president in Chile, Salvador Allende, a few moments before
murder during a military coup in Santiago.
(As the recognized photographer Luis Orlando Lagos Vázquez).

September 5, 1972
The morning of 5 September 1972, during the Olympic Games Munich, a vanguard of the Palestinian military organization «Black September», invaded the Olympic village and holds 11 Israeli athletes hostage in exchange for the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners.
two Israeli athletes will run. That night, a drama evolving in the airport Munich, where terrorists try to escape with their hostages to Cairo. With the intervention of the German police killed 9 Israeli hostages, and 5 out of 8 members of the organization. All the victims rises to 18. In the picture from the balcony of the apartment of the Israeli team likely to be the youngest member of the Afif Ahmed Hamid, who later found dead among the Palestinians.

8 June 1972
The 9-years-old Phan Th. Kim Phúc going to save the American Napalm bombs in
Vietnam, shouting «burn, burn». The global outcry caused by
this picture has forced the U.S. president to sit at the table
negotiations and to withdraw its troops soon.

Japan 1971
A mother, a Ryoko Uemura, agrees with the American photographer Eugene Smith, be photographed with the daughter of Tomoko Uemura, in a traditional Japanese bath. The purpose of photography was to give a strong signal for the consequences of disease Minamata (a type of mercury poisoning), which arise from the toxic wastes and chemical company Chisso and was «hit» and Tomoko, who eventually died in 1997 at the age of 21.

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon or Moon orbit. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Neil Alden Armstrong orbited above "one little step for for human,but a huge step for HUMANITY"

Mexico 1968
The Olympic Games African-Americans Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right),
in the award and while the sounds of the U.S. national anthem, raise the fist the wearing black gloves, so wanting to protest racial discrimination that exist in their country. The other fellow the Australian, Peter Norman, reach, wearing a distinctive Olympic Project for Human Rights and is proposed to fellow to wear by a glove. After this move, the 2 athletes expelled from the Olympics Games and U.S. Olympic team and said that they were removed and medals (did not materialize by Carlos).

1 February 1968
The police chief of South Vietnam,Nguyen Ng…c Loan, perform summary
processes in a way of Saigon, the Nguyen Văn Lém, State of Viet Congk.

South Vietnam 1966
An armored U.S. dragging a dead Vietcong.

South Vietnam 1965
A mother with 3 children, swimming across a river to escape the U.S. bombs. The photograph was taken by the Japanese Kyoichi Sawada.

4 June 1964
The naval base of Puerto Cabello in Venezuela, a soldier
that fatally injured by sniper;
trying to catch up in the navy priest Luis Padillo.

11 June 1963
The Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, set him self in fire as a protest to
repression of budist by the government of Vietnam. Throughout the course of
fire he did not move from its position at all.

In 1963
Martin Luther King lead the historic March on Washington, where he delivered his well-known and often quoted 'I Have a Dream' speech to over 250,000 people.

12 October 1960
The extreme right 17-years-old student, Yasushi Nagao, kills with a sword the socialist
political, Inejiro Asanuma, during a speech in Tokyo.

5 March 1960
As part of a burial service that takes place in Havana, Cuba
and an unannounced time, the photographer Alberto Korda,
takes the most famous photograph of Che Guevara.
The photograph was published 7 years later, entitled «The heroic Che».

4 September 1957
The Dorothy Counts is one of the first black students to enter
at the Charlotte High School in South Carolina, USA.
At the entrance of the Counts disapproved and fleert strongly
while her parents have withdrawn her from school only 4 days later.

29 May 1953
The 33-year-old Edmund Hillary and the 37-year-old Sherpa (guide) Tenzing Norgay from
Nepal, equipped with oxygen bottles, climbed only two of the last
measures on top of 8,848 meters height Tsomoloungkma (in local dialect) of
conditions of Everest Himalayas, which had until then bend at least 15 missions
and took the lives of more than 150 mountaineers.
The photo shows the Tenzing Norgay and the apothanatise Hillary,
Once the soles «Home of the world».

4 March 1951
The Albert Einstein made the photographic lens grin.