10 Interesting Fact About Famous Photographs

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• Photos Lifting the flag at Iwo Jima is actually a second shooting after the first photo that is considered less dramatic.
• The iconic Mother Migrant photo was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, showing Florence Owens Thompson who was actually not a migrant.
• Photo V-J Day In Times Square was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt during the celebration of victory in New York City on August 14, 1945.
• The Afghan Girl photo taken by Steve McCurry in 1984, described Sharbat Sugar, an Afghan refugee who was 12 years old at that time.
• The Falling Soldier Photo taken by Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War depicts a falling soldier, but then claimed as a fake photo.
• The Kiss's photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at the time of the V-J Day in Times Square, described a sailor who kissed an unknown woman.
• Photos of Tank Man taken by Jeff Widener when protesting at Tiananmen Square in 1989, showed a man who faced military tanks alone.
• The Burning Monk photo taken by Malcolm Browne in 1963, showed a Buddhist monk who burned himself in Saigon, Vietnam.
• The Earthrise Photo taken by William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, showed the earth that was published above the moon.
• The photo of the steerage taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907 shows immigrants who sail from Europe to the United States.