Photographs whose subject is a person or a pair of people, from documentary studies of a mother and children to staged portraits of an artist. A photograph belongs here when the cited article names a person or people as the subject. It excludes landscapes, still lifes and photographs of events with crowds. The pictures in this group were taken by documentary, art and portrait photographers, and some are among the most reproduced images of their century. A photograph is placed by its subject as named in the cited article, whatever the photographer or the process.
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Migrant Mother (Wikipedia)
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Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her time with the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration).
Afghan Girl (Wikipedia)
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Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan War.
Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 (Wikipedia)
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Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 is a noted photograph by photographer Diane Arbus from the United States.
Dali Atomicus (Wikipedia)
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Dalí Atomicus is a surreal photograph of the artist Salvador Dalí jumping, taken by the photographer Philippe Halsman in 1948.
Untitled Film Stills (Wikipedia)
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Sherman casts herself in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s films.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Wikipedia)
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller
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