10 Photos That Will Make History
Photos are magical things. They can capture anger, happiness, even complex geopolitics in a nanosecond, freezing it in time . . . forever. What makes an image iconic, then? A few years back I met Stuart Franklin, the Magnum photographer who has taken some of the most iconic photos in history. Did he know he was documenting history in China in 1989? No. “We didn’t have TV in Beijing, so we didn’t know how big that image had gone,” he told me. Fast-forward three decades and with every moment now captured by millions of phones, choosing snaps that are likely to stand the test of time is a...