[QUOTE=Gulo gulo]
The first one that pops in my head that hasn’t already been mentioned is the top photo on this page. While not ‘famous’ it often shows up in email glurge with an inaccurate description.
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What’s the inaccurate glurge associated with that picture? I’m assuming that the link you’ve provided offered the accurate description - and can’t imagine how you’d make it even more glurgy.
These photos aren’t so famous any more, but I thought they were worth mentioning - the Cottingley Fairies: In the 1920s, there were a series of photos of some English country girls froclicking with some supposedly real fairies. They were a huge sensation at the time, and many people were fooled into believing they were genuine pictures. To a modern-day viewer, the photos look obviously doctored (especially the second picture - just look at the girl’s hand).
I thought of the Joe Rosenthal photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. This page features the iconic picture in both cropped and uncropped versions, along with related shots.
Of the many memorable photos not yet mentioned, the one at the top of this page resonates with me.
[QUOTE=matt_mcl]
Weird - it lists the artist as Margaret Bourke-White, but the caption clearly states it was taken by her assistant.
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And I always think of it as being one of hers even though it obviously couldn’t be. I guess it works like renaissance painters - the master gets credit for the works the apprentices create.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
What’s the inaccurate glurge associated with that picture? I’m assuming that the link you’ve provided offered the accurate description - and can’t imagine how you’d make it even more glurgy.
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I guess you can say it’s just some extra added glurge: Snopes
[QUOTE=Bayard]
I’m not sure why, exactly, but this one popped into my head when I saw the thread title.
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Me too!
Wonder what that means.
I can’t believe the thread went so far without this photo. It was the first one I thought of, quickly followed by http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm_878_Image_250.jpg
It’s Marion Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial…and I’m a little peeved I can’t get a larger resolution of the shot.
Apparently his official web meme title is Tank Guy.
[QUOTE=FaerieBeth]
I can’t believe the thread went so far without this photo. It was the first one I thought of, quickly followed by http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm_878_Image_250.jpg
It’s Marion Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial…and I’m a little peeved I can’t get a larger resolution of the shot.
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Wikipedia is your friend. 
First was the V-J Day kiss.
Second was this Dust Bowl pic, which I don’t think anyone else has mentioned.
How many of the pics in this thread entered our consciousness through Life magazine?
Mine’s this one:
Just saw a docu about this so it’s in my head and I’m finding it hard to get it out.
9/11 falling man
I don’t know if it’s famous but this is the image that probably has had the biggest effect on me. I actually hate the guy in the middle toasting the scene with a passion that I’ve rarely felt for people I’ve actually meet. The aftermath of a lynching/burning(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Omaha_courthouse_lynching.jpg)
I love this image of Orson Wells arriving for the premiere of Citizen Kane. There’s such confidence in himself in the image. He was really top of the world when that was taken.
