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PA RIS Place de l'Europe, Gare Saint Lazare, 1932. Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson writes, "There was

a plank fence around some repairs behind the Gare Saint Lazare train station. I happened to be peeking through

a gap in t he fence w ith my camera at the moment the man jumped. The space between t he planks was not

entirely w ide enough for my lens, which is the reason w hy the picture is cut off on the lef t ."

PHOTO: Henri Cartier-Bresson


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NORM AN DY, France The first wave of American troops lands on Omaha Beach at dawn on June 6, 1944,

marking the beginning of Operation Overlord.

PHOTO: ROBERT CAPA 2001 By Cornell Capa


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KORDOFAN , Sudan The N ubas, 1949.

PHOTO: George Rodger


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PARIS Demonstrators (from left ) Charles Dinerstein (who later died in a concent ration camp), Simon

L ichtenst ein, Solange Roche-Farger, Francis Lemarque, Henri Fush, and M ichel Roche-Farger remember those

killed during the 1871 Paris Commune. The group st ands atop a small chapel in Pre Lachaise cemetery on M ay24, 1936.

PHOTO: David Seymour


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NEW YORK A llama in Times Square in 1957.

PHOTO: Inge M orath


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BA LU CHI STAN , Pakistan The haunted eyes tell of a young Afghan

refugee's fears, 1985.

PHOTO: Steve McCurry


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BU RM A The Shwe Pyi Daw Rock, a Buddhist holy site, is located 10 miles north of Kyakito and 150 miles

from the capital, Rangoon.

PHOTO: Hiroji Kubota


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PRAGUE, Cz echoslovakia W arsaw Pact t roops in front of Prague Radio headquarters in August 1968.

PHOTO: Josef K oudelka


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PARIS A tired dog lounges on Rue de l'Ouest in the 14th arrondissement .

PHOTO: Richard K alvar


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LONDON The escalators at B aker Street U nderground station, 1959.

PHOTO: Sergio Larrain


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SOUTH CAROLI N A A woman mourns her nephew , who was killed in Vietnam, at a 1966 funeral.

PHOTO: Constant ine Manos


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CHI CAGO Lena Horne backstage at the Chez Paree supper club in M ay 1947.

From Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948

PHOTO: W ayne M iller


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ITA LY The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1990.

PHOTO: M artin Parr


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TEHR AN , Iran V eiled women training in shooting on the outskirts of the city, 1986.

PHOTO: Jean Gaumy


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U N ITED STATE S A photo taken f rom Robert K ennedy's funeral train, 1968.

PHOTO: Paul Fusco


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NEW YORK Two women in a diner, 1962.

PHOTO: Bruce Davidson


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NEW YORK A blind woman is guided on 57th Street , 1992.

PHOTO: Bruce Gilden


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HA V AN A Castro enters the city and delivers an hours-long speech, 1959.

PHOTO: Burt Glinn


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V IETN AM The 10-year-old South V ietnamese soldier in this 1968 photo was known as "litt le t iger" for

allegedly having killed hismother and teacher, two Viet Cong members.


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CHICAGO M uhammad A li poses on a bridge above the Chicago River in 1966.

PHOTO: Thomas Hoepker


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NEW YORK A girl in a bus watches people trudging through a 1967 snowstorm.

PHOTO: Erich Hartmann


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MARRAKECH, M orocco Young Berber girls hide and giggle, 1986.

PHOTO: Harry Gruyaert


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LE CAP, South A frica 1984.

PHOTO: Ian Berry


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PARIS Students clash wit h police on Boulevard Saint Germain in the sixth arrondissement on May 6,

1968.

PHOTO: Bruno Barbey


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NEV ADA M arilyn M onroe on the set of The M isfit s in 1960.

PHOTO: Eve Arnold


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N EW YORK M embers of a kung fu school march to celebrate the Chinese N ew Y ear in 1996.

PHOTO: Chien-Chi Chang


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CALIFORN IA Sen. John F. K ennedy reaches his hands into a crowd while

campaigning for the presidency in 1960.

PHOTO: Cornell Capa


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SAO PAU LO, Brazil 1960.

PHOTO: Rene Burri


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BE IJIN G Tiananmen Square, 1989.

PHOTO: Stuart Franklin


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GROZ N Y, Chechnya Girls with balloons in the city's destroyed center, February 2002.

PHOTO: Thomas Dw orzak


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N EW YORK James Dean walks in Times Square in 1955. For a novice actor in the 1950s, this was the

place to go. The Actors Studio,directed by Lee Strasberg, was in its heyday and just a block away.

PHOTO: Dennis Stock


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TEHR AN , Iran At a February 1979 rally in Amjadiye Stadium in support of the shah, a woman puts a

bank note with his picture

to her eye, meaning, "He is the light of my eyes."

PHOTO: Abbas


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N EW YORK Harlem's f ire hydrants are opended during the summer heat in 1963.

PHOTO: Leonard Freed


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AR L IN GTON, V a. Jacqueline Kennedy at her husband's funeral, Nov. 25, 1963.

PHOTO: Elliott Erw itt


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W ASHI N GTON A V ietnam veteran holds an American flag to the V ietnam Memorial on the 10th

anniversary

of the end of the war, in 1985.PHOTO: Peter M arlow


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ME XICO CITY Prostitutes, 2000.

PHOTO: Maya Goded

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