The first time a tree was put up in Rockefeller Centre was in 1931. The depression-era workmen building the centre were so happy to have jobs that they decorated a tree with strings of cranberries, paper garlands and a few tin cans. Thereafter the first official...
Checkpoint Charlie, one of the ultimate symbols of the Cold War, epitomized the separation between east and west for nearly thirty years. Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 by the East German government. This checkpoint represented not...
The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937. It has become one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California and of the United States. Before the bridge was built, the only...
“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. “Henri Cartier-Bresson Boulevard Diderot, Paris...
Photograph by Des Oxford, in 2006. The bull is a 3,200 kg bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in New York City. Standing 11 feet tall and measuring 16 feet long, the oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of...