The US magazine, TIME, has chosen the 100 'most influential images of all time' in an extroardinary list
26 November 2016
End of the war: The mushroom cloud of the second atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The USA dropped two atomic bombs, the other over Hiroshima to end the Second World War. Around 185,000 people died
Nessie lives? Of all the supposed images of the Loch Ness monster, this one taken by Dr Kenneth Wilson in 1934 is the most iconic.
On June 5, 1989 this man bravely stood in front of a Chinese tank following the Tiananmen Square massacre. Chinese troops had attacked pro-democracy demonstrators camped on the plaza
The Hindenburg disaster in which 35 people died, marked the end of the era of passengers using airships for travel. The airship crashed at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937
Buddhist protest: AP photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc sacrificing himself on a Saigon street, Vietnam. The death was in protest at the treatment of Buddhists by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem
Associated Press photographer Richard Drew shot this man falling after two airliners crashed into the two World Trader Centre towers on September 11, 2001
Tears from the centre of destruction: A bloodied child cries in the ruins of Shanghai's South Railway Station in China after a Japanese bombing on August 28, 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War
Selfie power: This famous photograph taken at the 2014 Oscars featured A-listers Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jared Leto, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong'o, Peter Nyong'o and Angelina Jolie
From the gods: The Hubble Space Telescope took this image in 1995. 'Pillars of Creation' shows Eagle Nebula, a star-forming patch of space 6,500 light-years from Earth (the black portion is from the magnification of one of Hubble’s four cameras)
Iraqi controversy: A hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison. The US military was criticised following the 2004 scandal
This view of the Earth greeted Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon on their lunar craft. The image was taken on December 24, 1968, exactly 75 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds after the Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off
Adolf Hitler makes his entrance at a mass Nazi rally at Buckeberg in 1934. The image was taken by his personal photographer and confidant Heinrich Hoffmann. He was instrumental in staging Hitler’s growing power in the 1930s
A Turkish police officer stands next to a migrant child's dead body, later identified as Aylan Kurdi, off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2, 2015. The photo made headlines around the world
