Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, photo icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope

• Alfred Stieglitz; The Steerage, 1907
• Lewis W.Hine; Girl Worker in a Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908
• Jacques-Henri lartigue; Grand Prix de I'A. C.F., 1912
• August Sander; Young Farmers, 1914
• Paul Strand; Blind Woman, 1916
• Man Ray; Noire et blanche, 1926
• Konrad Ressler; Bertolf Brecht, 1927
• Andre Kertesz; Meudon, 1928
• Robert Capa; Spanish Loyalist, 1936
• Dorothea Lange; Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
• Sam Shere; Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, 1937
• Horst P.Horst; Mainbocher Corset, 1939
• Alfred Eisenstaedt; VJ Day, 1945
• Henri Cartier-Bresson; Germany, 1945
• Richard Peter; View from the Dresden City Hall Tower toward the South, 1945
• ernst Haas; Vienna, 1947
• Robert Doisneau; The Kiss in front of City Hall, 1950
• Dennis Stock; James Dean on Time Square, 1955
• Will McBride; Barbara Pregnant with Shawn, 1960
• Robert Lebeck; Leopoldville, 1960

• Peter Leibing; Leap to freedom, 1961
• Bert Stern; Marilyn's last sitting, 1962
• Rene Burri; Che, 1963
• Gerard Malanga; Andy Warhol and the velvet underground, 1966
• Nick Ut; Kim Phuc - Napalm against civilians, 1972
• Barbara Klemm; Leonid Brezhnev, Willy Brandt, Bonn, 1973
• RAF; Hanns Martin Schleyer, Prisoner of the RAF, 1977
• Helmut Newton; They're Coming!, 1981
• Sandy Skoglund; Revenge of the Goldfish, 1981
• Robert Mapplethorpe; Lisa Lyon, 1982
• Joel-Peter Witkin; Un Santo Oscuro, 1987
• Sebastiao Salgado; Kueait, 1991
• Martin Parr; Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 1991
• Bettina Rheims; Chambre Close, 1992
• Thomas Hoepker; View of Manhattan from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2001

• Nicephore Niepce: view from the study window, 1827
• Louis Jacques, Monde Daguerre; Boulevard du temple, 1838
• Hippolyte Bayard; Self-portrait as a drowned man, 1840
• Alois Locherer; Torso of Bavaria, 1850
• Eugene Durieu / Eugene Delacroix; Nude from behind, ca.1853
• Duchenne de Boulogne; Contractions musculaires, 1856
• Robert Howlett; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1857
• Auguste Rosalie Bisson; The Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1862
• Nadar; Sarah Bernhardt, ca.1864
• Francois Aubert; Emperor Maximillan's Shirt, 1867
• Andre Adolphe, Eugene Disderi; Dead Communards, 1871
• Maurice Guibert; Toulouse-Lautrec in His Studio, ca.1894
• Max Priester / Willy Wilcke; Bismarck on His Deathbed, 1898
• Heinrich Zille; The Wood Gatherers, 1898
• Karl Blossfeldt; Maidenhair Fern, ca.1900