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Hopefully, folk will add their favourites to this thread 
First is the The Twickenham Streaker, by Ian Bradshaw taken in February 1974 of Michael OBrien being led away by police after streaking at an England-France rugby match at Twickenham. The image won LIFE magazine's "Picture of the Year" award, People Magazine Picture of The Decade and a World Press Photo Award.
What appeals to me most is it's so typically English, from the amused expressions on the Bobbys' faces, the strategically placed helmet, and that rather officious official with the coat in the background
My second, unsurprisingly is Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams.
Ansel, when driving with some assistants, saw the scene and stopped immediately, recognizing a once-in-a-lifetime moment. He knew that the light would change before he had time to take meter readings. So he quickly exposed a negative, using his knowledge of the moon's luminance and his own Zone system to estimate the exposure. Ansel tried to get off another image before the light changed, but it was too late. He only had that one exposure and it turned out to be his most famous shot.
I remember seeing this print many years ago, in a shop in some large UK city, and it literally stopped me in my tracks, it absolutely blew me away, it was such an hauntingly beautiful image that it has stayed with me since.
My third is Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath, by W.Eugene Smith. The photo depicts a mother cradling her severely deformed, naked daughter in a traditional Japanese bathing chamber. The mother, RyokoUemura, agreed to pose for the startlingly intimate photograph with Smith to illustrate the terrible effects of mercury poisoning on the body and mind of her daughter Tomoko.
I first saw this image in a magazine published by Minolta way back in the 70's, and it evoked then, and still does now so many emotions, from pathos to anger, from being in awe of the pure beauty of the image to disgust at what happened to the poor girls broken body. It's an image you can't ignore.
First is the The Twickenham Streaker, by Ian Bradshaw taken in February 1974 of Michael OBrien being led away by police after streaking at an England-France rugby match at Twickenham. The image won LIFE magazine's "Picture of the Year" award, People Magazine Picture of The Decade and a World Press Photo Award.
What appeals to me most is it's so typically English, from the amused expressions on the Bobbys' faces, the strategically placed helmet, and that rather officious official with the coat in the background
My second, unsurprisingly is Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams.
Ansel, when driving with some assistants, saw the scene and stopped immediately, recognizing a once-in-a-lifetime moment. He knew that the light would change before he had time to take meter readings. So he quickly exposed a negative, using his knowledge of the moon's luminance and his own Zone system to estimate the exposure. Ansel tried to get off another image before the light changed, but it was too late. He only had that one exposure and it turned out to be his most famous shot.
I remember seeing this print many years ago, in a shop in some large UK city, and it literally stopped me in my tracks, it absolutely blew me away, it was such an hauntingly beautiful image that it has stayed with me since.
My third is Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath, by W.Eugene Smith. The photo depicts a mother cradling her severely deformed, naked daughter in a traditional Japanese bathing chamber. The mother, RyokoUemura, agreed to pose for the startlingly intimate photograph with Smith to illustrate the terrible effects of mercury poisoning on the body and mind of her daughter Tomoko.
I first saw this image in a magazine published by Minolta way back in the 70's, and it evoked then, and still does now so many emotions, from pathos to anger, from being in awe of the pure beauty of the image to disgust at what happened to the poor girls broken body. It's an image you can't ignore.
