While the photos on that page aren't necessarily meant to represent any sort of ranking, it seems odd to list a representation of the birth of photography below Betty Grable and the Marlboro Man.

Is it just me, or were there only 27 photos?

It's a sample, Robert. They want you to buy the book.

27 is the new 100. (And yes, the online photos are only a teaser for the book. Sorry about the confusion.)

While the photos on that page aren't necessarily meant to represent any sort of ranking, it seems odd to list a representation of the birth of photography below Betty Grable and the Marlboro Man.


Are you looking at the same Betty Grable as I am? That's one HOT momma.

: )

The image quality of pigeon house thing is almost as good as a mobile phone picture. Weird.

Every time I see the photograph from Tiananmen Square, I tear up. That guy, there with his grocery bags was for that day, Superman. I have to think that in 100 years, 300 years, or ten centuries from now, his image will still be one of the greatest symbols of bravery and the refusal to submit to tyranny.

Actually, that Tiananmen caption ("... and blood would fill Tiananmen") is misleading given that there's very little evidence that anyone was killed there. e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2317,00.html

You're probably right, Michael, it should probably be "Beijing Massacre" (because whether or not they died in Tiananmen Square or in the surrounding area doesn't seem to to me to be the central fact of the issue), but it was a massacre nonetheless, and exactly where it happened makes the Tiananmen Tank Man photograph no less compelling.