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John Singleton Copley: The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar, 13 September 1782, c1783 (left);Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

Carl Ferdinand Stelzner: Hamburg after the fire of 1842

Matthew Brady: Ulysses S. Grant

Roger Fenton: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855; Felice Beato: Interior of the Secundra Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regt. in 1857, 1858; Alexander Gardner: Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, 5th July, 1863

Erich Salomon: Five gentlemen conversing around a table; Felix Man: Mussolini Giving Orders to Teruzzi, Commandant of the Fascist Militia, 1931

Robert Capa (clockwise from top left): Death of a Loyalist Soldier; Republican soldiers during an attack, Andalucia; Republican soldiers, Cordoba front; Members of the International Brigades, in or around the university campus, in the western outskirts of Madrid, all 1936.

OWI Photographer: Workmen perform finishing operation on a front section of a B-25 bomber. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City.; George Strock: Buna Campaign American Casualties, Papua New Guinea 1943

Chief Photographer's Mate Robert F. Sargent, US Coast Guard: Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division landing onto Omaha Beach from the US Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase (top right); Robert Capa: American landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944 (bottom left and right)

W. EUGENE SMITH

“Television brought the brutality of warinto the comfort of the living room.Vietnam was lost in the living roomsof America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”

Marshall McLuhan, 1975

Larry Burrows: South of DMZ, 1966, First-aid center, where wounded Marines were treated before being helped to air-evacuation points; Eddie Adams: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon, 1968; Nick Ut: Phan Thi Kim Phuc runs down the road fter her home was struck by napalm.

Larry Burrows: Crew Chief James Farley shouts to his gunner, Wayne Hoilien: "My gun is jammed. Cover your side. I'll help these guys.”

Department of Defense; Video capture (CNN))

Ken Jarecke: Iraqi soldier, Highway 8, outside Basra, 1991

Luc Delahaye: Dead Taliban Soldier, from the History series

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Frames from a YouTube video of Neda Agha-Soltan's death.

Jean-Christian Bourcart: from the Collateral series, 2005

Fazal Sheikh: Malikh, from Ladii [Beloved Daughter]

Photographer Unknown: William Spreckley

Francisco Goya y Lucientes: from the Disasters of War, 1810-20 , first published 1863

Goltzius: The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588

Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas, 1575-76

Robert Capa: Land Redistribution Meeting, Estramadura, Spain, 1936

Robert Capa: French collaborator and baby jeered by townspeople, Chartres, 1944

The Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department of the 3rd London General Hospital

Larry Burrows: As Yankee Papa 13 approaches the landing zone, Crew Chief James Farley opens fire with his M-60 machine gun; In a supply shack, the tragic and frustrating mission over, Farley weeps.

Viet Cong guerrillas move through "fighting holes" in abandoned South Vietnamese houses. Such holes, dug almost a decade earlier, allowed them to pass through villages unseen, 1960

Achilles and Memnon, fighting between Thetis and Eos, c520 BCE

John Singleton Copley: The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar, 13 September 1782, c1783 (left);Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

Tyler Hicks: New York Times

Hans-Peter Feldman: 9/12 Front Page

W. Eugene Smith: Three Generations of Welsh Miners, 1950

Charles Moore: As demonstrators lie on the sidewalk to protect themselves, firemen hose them down with high-pressure jets of water at the order of Police Commissioner Bull Connor. One disgusted fireman said later, “We're supposed to fight fires, not people.” Birmingham, 1963

James Nachtwey: Zaire

Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua (1978)

Susan Meiselas: A widow at a mass grave in Iraqi Kurdistan

Walker Evans: Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936; Boris Ignatovich: Woman with Grapes; Ben Shahn: Picking Cotton on Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935; Max Penson: Planting Cotton, 1930s