20 Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken


 

 

 

 

 

 

14. The iconic anti-war photograph taken by French photographer Marc Riboud, featuring Jan Rose Kasmir, an American high school student planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photo later became a symbol of the flower power movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

13. A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. Called as “Earthrise,” It has been called "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken."