A father and son walking past houses in Warsaw, still in ruins, 12 years after the end of WWII.
Warsaw, Poland - 1957
“An elderly Sri Lankan Tamil sits among the rubble of a village near Puthukkudiyiruppu on April 24, 2009.”
Live coverage of US Marines landing on Iwo Jima.
Originally broadcast: February 19, 1945
The execution of Polish hostages in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi police station by the underground organization “White Eagle.” In all, fifty-one civilians were shot.
The ruins of a French church.
Saint-Lô., France - June/July, 1944
(Photo by Robert Capa.)
Ernest Hemingway on the front line with The International Brigades, who were made up of volunteers from 53 different countries who chose to travel to Spain and fight against Franco’s fascist army during the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Capa - Teruel, Spain, December 1937.
(Negative from Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” lost after World War II then rediscovered in 2007.)
“Thousands of guns are destroyed in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, on February 16, 2012. At least 6,000 rifles and pistols seized from drugs cartels were destroyed by members of the Mexican Army.”
Child soldiers smoking in Angola.
January 29, 1976.
(Photo by Clive Limpkin.)
“A girl looks at the Berlin Wall through a frosty window which reflects the Wall’s silhouetted barbed wire in December 1962.”
