The School of Athens

The School of Athens
The School of Athens by Raphael (click on picture to view short documentary from Columbia University)

Classic photographs

Florence Owens Thompson, "Migrant Mother"; Dorothea Lange, 1936


 Sharbat Gula, "Afghan Girl"; Steve McCurry, 1984


Buzz Aldrin;  Neil Armstrong, 1969


Gandhi at his spinning wheel; Margaret Bourke White, 1946


Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream"; 1963


Nelson Mandela in prison



Aung San Suu Kyi


Tiananmen Square; Jeff Widener, 1989


Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Mathew Brady, 1863


3rd Battle of Ypres; Australian soldiers, 1917


 3rd Battle of Ypres; Australian soldiers silhouette, 1917


Allied Expeditionary Force Command, February 1944



Yalta Summit, 1945


 Iwo Jima; Joe Rosenthal, 1945


Liberation of Buchenwald; Margaret Bourke-White, 1945


"Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945


The Dancing Man, Sydney Australia; August 15, 1945


V-J Day in Times Square, New York City; Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945


The Hindenburg disaster; UPI, 1937


September 11; New York Times, 2001


Lunch a top a skyscraper; Charles C Ebbet, 1932


Resting on a girder, 1932


There's no way like the American way; Margaret Bourke-White, 1935


Galloping Horse; Eadweard Muybridge, 1878


Dali Atomicus; Philippe Halsman, 1948


Greta Garbo, early 1930s


Marlene Dietrich; Milton Greene, 1952


James Dean Times Square; Dennis Stock, 1955


Jack and Bobby; Hank Walker, 1960


Sugar Ray Robinson; Ralph Morse, 1950


Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston; AP, 1965


Both sides now; John Shearer, 1971


1968 Olympics 200 metres medal presentation


Mark Spitz; Co Rentmeester, 1972


Abbey Road cover; Iain Macmillan, 1969


Blog Archive

Our home

Our home
Earthrise over the moon (click on picture to view film)

The pale blue dot

The pale blue dot
Earth viewed from Saturn (click on picture to view film clip)

Our neighbourhood

Our neighbourhood
The Solar System (click on picture to view film)

Our Home Galaxy

Our Home Galaxy
The Milky Way (click on picture to view film)

A sister galaxy

A sister galaxy
Andromeda (click on picture to view film)

Another sister galaxy

Another sister galaxy
Triangulum (click on picture to view short film clip)

The Local Group of Galaxies

The Local Group of Galaxies
Our Galactic Neighbourhood (click on picture to view film clip).

Our farthest view of the Universe

Our farthest view of the Universe
Hubble's farthest view (click on picture to view film clip)

The virgo super cluster of galaxies

The virgo super cluster of galaxies
Galaxies within 100 million light years (click on picture to view film clip)

Galaxies within 1 billion light years

Galaxies within 1 billion light years

Universe

Universe