Culture and People

Photographs of Einstein at the beach, 1939

A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971

The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967

The five races of Mankind according to this German poster, 1911

A mother and her daughter falling from a fire escape, 1975

The Solvay Conference, probably the most intelligent picture ever taken, 1927

The burning monk, 1963

The Drying Mummy: Native American Smoke Curing a Human Corpse, 1910

Padaung “Giraffe” Women Visit London: Old Photos, 1935

Miners washing each other’s backs in the showers, a daily ritual at the end of the working day, 1945

A father comforts his son on his deathbed. The photo that changed the face of AIDS. 1989

Porters transport a car on long poles across a stream in Nepal, 1948

Dr. Leonid Rogozov: The Soviet surgeon who removed his own appendix while stranded in Antarctica, 1961

Pope John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate him, 1983

Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991

Omayra Sanchez, young victim of the Armero Tragedy in Colombia, 1985

Harold Whittles hearing sound for the first time, 1974

The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down and other historical images, 1890-1930

The vulture and the little girl

German expedition to Tibet led by Ernst Schäfer, 1938-1939

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