Thursday, April 2, 2026

What are some of the most epic photos ever taken?

 1. Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987


2. Black officer protecting KKK member from protesters, 1983


3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a young gentleman, 1986


4. Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. Probably the earliest born individual captured on film


5. Transporting 'The Apple', the first Indian satellite, 1981


6. The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated, 1980


7. Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie in 1980


8. Due to strong crosswinds, a landing plane crashes with a truck standing near the runway, 1976


9. Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis, 1973


10. A foreskin away from death
a Pakistani soldier during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence examines whether the man is circumcised or not(i.e. Hindus are not)

11. A stripper visits the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, late 1970s


12. Man working at analog computer, 1968


13. The Prague Spring of 1968: Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank


14. Early morning train, Japan, 1964


15. Test pilot George Aird – flying a English Electric Lightning F1


16. The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club, December 1961. They were to become superstars in one and a half years time


17. Canteen for Disney workers, 1961


18. The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, 1960s


19. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960


20. A swimmobile in New York City, 1960


21. Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958


22. Charlton Heston as Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” drive-in theater, Utah, 1958


23. Uploading (:D) the first 5 MByte hard disk to a PanAm plane, 1956


24. Coca Cola is introduced in France, 1950


25. In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a tree as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France


26. A flight simulator in 1942


27. An opium den in Singapore, 1941


28. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, 1928


29. Filming of the MGM screen credits - The beginning of the Hollywood era, 1928


30. Factory workers race on the roof (test track) of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy, 1923


31. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922 (3,245 years untouched)


32. A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach, 1920


33. The first international match at Wimbledon


34. Princeton students after a snowball fight, 1893


35. Interior of a London Pub, 1898


36. Overly manly man Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896

Series 2

1950 Mumbai

. A 90s picture of Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World Aishwarya Rai



A rare photoshoot of Madhubala for the LIFE magazine


A 1970s photo of Amitabh Bacchan and family


A rare picture of President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad


A 1980s Picture of The Bandit Queen- Phoolan Devi


Mourning of death of Ramkrishna Paramhansa with young Vivekananda (4th from left)

Young Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli

1950s Opera House on MG road in Bangalore

Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata


A very rare photograph of Nathuram Godse, who shot Mahatma Gandhi