Description:

he power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of
all time. Robert Capa's dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthal's
photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did-in quite an opposite way-
Eddie Adams' and Larry Burrows' searing imagery from Vietnam.LIFE thinks outside
the box in this book: Did Marilyn Monroe's pinup change the world?Did Harry
Benson's photography of the Beatles deplaning in New York in 1964 alter our cultural
focus?The pictures in this book are sometimes beautiful, often striking-and undeniably
powerful.

From Publishers Weekly
Nominated through on-line votes and selected by Life editors, the 100 images in this
compendium cover unforgettable moments in "The Arts," "Society," "War & Peace"
and "Science & Nature." The photographs are all striking-whether visually or
viscerally, artistically or emotionally-but many are difficult to look at. As Gordon
Parks writes in his introduction, "these images helped push us toward a change." And
so it's possible to revisit the moments when a white crowd in Indiana cheered at the
hanging bodies of two black men, when grieving members of AIDS activist David
Kirby gathered around his deathbed, when the 1937 bombing of Shanghai left a train
station destroyed and a single bloody child alone amidst the wreckage. There are a
few lighter moments-the Beatles arriving at JFK in 1964, the American Olympic
hockey team celebrating their 1980 landmark victory over the "Soviet machine"-but
over all, this gathering of photos shows our darker hours. There's little here that hasn't
been reprinted numerous times, but it's a stirring collection nevertheless. Copyright
2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Specifications:

Hardcover	176 pgs
Dimensions	11 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
Weight	2.4 pounds