The Icon Trade: The Most Famous Photos Ever Sold

Lunch atop a skyscraper, Iwo Jima, the V-J Day kiss, Migrant Mother, the Falling Soldier, the napalm girl: the century’s best-known pictures — how they were made, distributed, authenticated and disputed.

Playlist by @picture_agency_birth

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1. How Nick Ut's Photo 'Napalm Girl' Changed The Vietnam War | NBC News — NBC News
2. The Complete Photographic Story of the Iwo Jima Flag (No AI) — SNAFU DOCS
3. Raising The Flag At Iwo Jima: Story Behind The Photo | Flashback | NBC News — NBC News
4. Kissing the war goodbye: Remembering iconic photo 70 years after VJ day — CBS Mornings
5. Who Were the People in the VJ Day Kiss Photo? | NEGATIVES — BFBS Creative
6. Masterpiece: The Making of Migrant Mother — Nerdwriter1
7. Whose Migrant Mother was this? — The Art Assignment
8. Behind the icon, Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother — Smarthistory
9. Story of "Migrant Mother" Photograph by Dorothea Lange - American Artifacts — C-SPAN
10. The REAL Story Behind Robert Capa's "The Falling Soldier" (NEW Episode of Good World Gone Bad) — Three Blind Men and An Elephant
11. Is This Photography's Greatest Fake? — Serum Visions
12. The Story Behind the Most Horrifying Picture ‘The Vulture and the Little Girl’ — Mighty Monk
13. 'Afghan Girl': Taking National Geographic's Most Famous Photo — FORA.tv
14. The story behind 'Napalm Girl': The image that 'changed the Vietnam War' — The Straits Times