The talking pictures
NEW YORK—James Dean alone in Times Square, 1955.
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© Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos
CERRO MURIANO, Spain—Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish loyalist militiaman, collapses into death, 1936.

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Afeghan womens in the camp field preparing to battle and die
FRANCE—D-Day, Omaha Beach, 1944.
© ROBERT CAPA © 2001 By Cornell Capa / Magnum Photos
© ROBERT CAPA © 2001 By Cornell Capa / Magnum Photos

POLAND—Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She has drawn a picture of "home" on the blackboard, 1948.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba—Fidel Castro lifts a young admirer during the revolution, 1959.
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MEXICO—Mexicans are arrested while trying to cross the U.S. border, 1979.
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ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967.
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NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.
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PARIS—Students hurl projectiles during the May 1968 student protest.
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ARLINGTON, Va.—Jacqueline Kennedy at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s funeral, Nov. 25, 1963.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon’s kitchen debate, 1959.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966.
© Constantine Manos / Magnum Photos
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A female protester being arrested and led away by police, 1963.
© Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
© Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos

ARLINGTON, Va.—Jacqueline Kennedy at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s funeral, Nov. 25, 1963.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon’s kitchen debate, 1959.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966.
© Constantine Manos / Magnum Photos