Η συγκεκριμένη ανάρτηση είναι
αφιερωμένη στις φωτογραφίες που κέρδισαν το βραβείο της καλύτερης φωτογραφίας
παγκοσμίως από το 1955 έως και το 2011. Ακολουθούν ορισμένες από τις πιο
συγκλονιστικές στιγμές στην πρόσφατη ιστορία.
1962
- Priest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a loyalist soldier who is
mortally wounded by a sniper during military rebellion against President
Bétancourt at Puerto Cabello naval base in Venezuela. (Héctor Rondón Lovera)
1963
- Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the
persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (Malcolm W.
Browne)
1966
- The body of a Vietcong soldier is dragged behind an American armored
vehicle en route to a burial site after fierce fighting. (Kyoichi Sawada)
1968
- South Vietnam national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected
Viet Cong member. (Eddie Adams)
1984
- A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical
plant disaster. (Pablo Bartholomew)
2006
- Young Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood
in southern Beirut. (Spencer Platt)
