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Baby in Iconic Tsunami Photo Safe With Parents

Apr 19th 2011 – 8:46AM
Yomiuri Shimbun / AP

Yomiuri Shimbun / AP

ISHINOMAKI, Japan -- A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pink blanket, plucked from the second story of a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami flattened much of the country's northeastern coastline. The moment -- captured by a photographer from leading...

Opinion: Why This Is the Iconic Gulf Oil Spill Picture

By Matt MendelsohnJun 4th 2010 – 11:29AM
Charlie Riedel, AP

Charlie Riedel, AP

(June 4) -- A man helplessly tries to stop a convoy of tanks with his body. Three firefighters raise an American flag in the rubble of the World Trade Center. A turtle-necked hippie places a carnation in the barrel of a rifle during a Vietnam War protest. You can never predict when a single photograph will transcend that...

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