Top-100 Photos

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

1. I chose this image not just because it was a bunch of guys inches to their death, but also because I have seen the photo before and it caught my eye instantly while browsing the photos.

2. The picture is of construction workers on a lunch break. The picture was stages for a promotional campaign, and the photographer and identities of the subjects are unknown

3. Ironworkers in New York City saw the picture as a badge of their bold tribe. It symbolized American resilience and ambition at a time when both were desperately needed.

4. There were three photographers at the scene at the time of the photo and nobody knows which one it was, so I will just do one of them (Charles C Ebbets)

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Charles C Ebeets

Born 1905, died 1978

Born Gadsden, Alabama

No info about school

Pillars of Creation

1. I picked this photo because it did not look real and was curious as to how it was taken and what was the subject, the pillars ad bright, shiny colors caught my eye.

2. The photo is a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is known as the Pillars of Creation which was an Eagle Nebula, a star-forming patch of space 6,500 light-years away from Earth.

3. When the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched it had a distorted mirror and could not take pictures until it was repaired. It was also over-budget and years behind schedule.

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Hubble Space Telescope

Born on 1990

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The Hindenburg Disaster

1. I chose this image because the large explosion and zeppelin caught my eye. I also knew what it was so I liked it.

2. The photo is of a zeppelin disaster back in 1937 where the ship's flammable hydrogen caught fire. It caused it to burst into yellow flames.

3. A zeppelin is a luxurious behemoth sky-liners that signified wealth and power. This accident killed 36 people and there was about two dozen photographers who scrambled to document it. Three decades later the photo was used as the cover of Led Zeppelin's first album. The crash brought the age of airships to a close.

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Sam Shere

Born in 1905 and died 1982

Born in Minsk, Belarus

No info about school

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

1. I chose this photo because it was of the moon and space which is something that I am interested in. The white suit is what caught my eye.

2. The photo is of Buzz Aldrin the second man on the moon. It is in the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969.

3. Aldrin didn't care that he was the second man on the moon because all of the pictures were of him.

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Neil Armstrong, NASA

Born in 1930 and died in 2012

Born in Wapakoneta, OH

University of Southern California, Purdue University

Coffin Ban

1. I liked the photo because I saw the flag and bright colors inside of a plane and was curious as to what it was.

2. Soldiers in Iraq were killed and the US government did not want photographers taking pictures of the coffins. The photographer felt like she had to share was she was seeing.

3. The photographer was fired because of the photo and debate raged over the ethics of the images. In 2009 Barack Obama lifted the ban on photographing the coffins.

4. Tami Silicio was not a photographer but a Military Contractor so there were not any other photos that she had taken.

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Tami Silicio

No official information is out there about her, but she was born around 1954 as her age was revealed during 2004 when she was fired over the photo