{"id":10786,"date":"2021-03-03T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T09:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:13:47","slug":"we-discover-some-of-the-most-influential-images-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/we-discover-some-of-the-most-influential-images-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"We discover some of the most influential images in history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An image can express untold emotions. <\/strong>That\u2019s why photography is a marvellous tool for capturing history. It is an art that lives on moments. A single image can represent an entire decade of events or even introduce us to an unknown culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We all have <strong>images of deeds in our retinas<\/strong> that are recorded in our memory. There are photographs that we immediately relate to a historical event, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would now like to show you some of the photographs that have marked history that we like best. Take note!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, 1932<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This photograph <strong>could well<\/strong> <strong>represent Workers\u2019 Day<\/strong>. The photographer was Charles C. Ebbets and it was published in the photographic supplement of the <em>New York Herald Tribune<\/em> during the Great Depression. It was a time of high unemployment and workers had to live through very tough working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos-900x708.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/almuerzo_rascacielos.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Man on the Moon, 1969<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20th July 1969 was a day that will always stick in our memory because it was <strong>the day on which man took the first step <\/strong>on the moon. Neil Armstrong\u2019s, Edwin Aldrin\u2019s and Michael Collins\u2019 faces evidenced this fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hombre_luna.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hombre_luna.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hombre_luna-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>End of the War in Times Square, 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This photograph, published in Life magazine, was taken on <strong>Victory over Japan Day on 14th August 1945<\/strong> when the Allied Forces defeated Japan. Alfred Eisenstaedt captured this moment of a U.S. Navy sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/beso_times_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/beso_times_square.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/beso_times_square-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Dali Atomicus, 1948<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippe Halsman&nbsp;and Salvador Dali got together one evening in 1948 to take a photograph that would <strong>demonstrate suspension in mid-air <\/strong>and after quite a few attempts, plenty of water and three somewhat frightened cats, they created the incredible image titled Dali Atomicus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus-900x697.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dali_atomicus.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Leap Into Freedom, 1961<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the greatest visual icons of the 20th century is this photograph by Peter Leibing who captured the exact moment when a <strong>young East German border guard cleared the barbed wire barrier <\/strong>into West Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/salto_libertad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/salto_libertad.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/salto_libertad-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/salto_libertad-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Raising the flag on Iwo Jima, 1945<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe&nbsp;Rosenthal&nbsp;took this iconic photograph during World War II on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. It became so famous that <strong>a commemorative statue was built,<\/strong> reproducing the original image, dedicated to all the soldiers who died defending their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-1024x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-1536x1163.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-2048x1551.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alzando_bandera-900x682.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Abbey Road Cover of The Beatles, 1969<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You will certainly find this photograph of the famous music group of <strong>The Beatles on a zebra crossing <\/strong>familiar<strong>. <\/strong>It became the cover picture of their album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"992\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/abbey_road.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/abbey_road.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/abbey_road-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/abbey_road-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/abbey_road-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Sharbat Gula, the Afghan Girl, 1984<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely you have seen this image of a young Afghan girl with the piercing green eyes. This photograph appeared on the cover of the famous National Geographic magazine. That is how the entire world discovered Sharbat Gula, a 12-year-old refugee in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sharbat_gula.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sharbat_gula.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sharbat_gula-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sharbat_gula-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sharbat_gula-900x510.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>&#8216;The Kiss&#8217; Between Brezhnev and Honecker, 1979<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When we think of Berlin and its recent history of a city divided by the Berlin Wall, <strong>the first image that comes to mind is that of the famous mural \u201cThe Kiss\u201d<\/strong>. This image from 1979 captures the kiss between the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, and the President of the GDR, Erich Honecker, during the 30th anniversary celebrations of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"601\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/el_beso.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/el_beso.png 601w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/el_beso-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image can express untold emotions. That\u2019s why photography is a marvellous tool for capturing history. It is an art that lives on moments. 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