The power of picture is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time. Robert Capa's dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthal's photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did--in quite an opposite way--Eddie Adams' and Larry Burrows' searing imagery from Vietnam. Life thinks outside the box in this book: Did Marilyn Monroe's pinup change the world? Did Harry Benson's photography of the Beatles deplaning in New York in 1964 alter our cultural focus? The pictures in this book are sometimes beautiful, often striking--and undeniably powerful. - This book captures the moments that changed our modern world forever--from war and peace times. - Robert Capa. Harry Benson. Alfred Eisenstadt...and the work of many other photographers who helped to define the modern era is on display in this book. - The ultimate coffee-table book for its generation.