History In Photos

Episode 4: Technology

Bullet Through Apple/How To Make Apple Sauce at MIT by Harold Edgerton

Mrs Bill Stagg's Quilt by Russel Lee

Last man To Die by Robert Capa

Christopher Reeve and The White Stripes by Chris Floyd

Episode 3: Fashion

Elaine Constantine for The Face 

Erwin Blumenfeld for Vogue 1950

Glen Lutchford for Prada 1997 Autumn/Winter.

Nick Knight for Yohji Yamamoto

Horst P. Horst - Mainbocher Corset

Episode 2: Music

Art Kane: A Great Day In Harlem 

Brian Duffy: Aladdin Sane

Jean-Paul Goude: Nightclubbing 

Robert Johnson: most recent discovery

Robert Johnson: Studio Photo 

Robert Johnson: Dime Store Photo 

 

Episode 1: Revolutions

Joseph Koudellka

Funeral of Jan Palach. Prague, 1969

Warsaw Pact Troops Invasion. Prague, 1968

Warsaw Pact Troops. Prague, 1968

Moises Saman

Tripoli, September 2011. A boy stands near a factory set ablaze by rebel fighters who accused its owner of being a supporter of Muammar Qaddafi. As the regime collapsed, reprisals against perceived loyalists became increasingly common, with homes and businesses targeted amid the chaos and absence of centralised authority.

Tripoli, 2011. Alleged Qaddafi supporters from the village of Tawergah displaced by rebel forces to a camp on the outskirts of Tripoli.

Tripoli, February 26, 2011. A family member faints during the funeral of 44-year-old Anwar Elgadi in the Tajura neighbourhood of Tripoli. Mr. Elgadi was shot in the head and killed on Friday during deadly clashes between anti-Qaddafi demonstrators and Libyan security forces.

Tripoli, August 25, 2011. A wounded Qaddafi loyalist captured by rebel fighters in the Abu Salim neighbourhood is brought by rebel fighters into a rebel-held hospital in central Tripoli.

Abbas

Tehran, Iran, Autumn 1979. Women at the Behest Zahra cemetery mourn the first "martyrs" of the Revolution.

Qom, Iran, December 1979. Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeiny (second from right), calls upon Ayatollah Shariat Madari (third from right) to appease tensions between their respective followers.

Tabas, Iran, April 26th 1980. Wreckage of a US RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter, which crashed in the Iranian desert near Tabas, in a failed attempt to liberate American hostages held captive in Tehran by islamist militants. The operation was called Eagle Claw, the location Desert One. 

Iran, 1980. Armed mullahs march past Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny's house.

Mob in the Iranian Revolution. 

Leonard Freed

Bucharest, Romania, 1989. "Revolution." The first day of the new year at the women's hospital.

Quartiers généraux du Parti communiste sous contrôle des révolutionnaires.

Bucharest, Romania, 1989. Sniper fire during the Revolution.