Life: 100 Photographs that Changed The World (ISBN 1-931933-84-7) is a book of photographs accumulated by the editors of Life in 2003.
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The project began with an online question posted on Life's website in 2003 and The Digital Journalist: Can photographs create the same historical effect as literature? Based on the responses, the editors compiled 100 photographs that they felt portrayed technological photographic achievements, documented historic events and accomplishments, or have achieved iconic cultural and symbolic status. The book was edited by Robert Sullivan, and published by Time Inc. Home Entertainment.
The work is divided into four major chapters and three accompanying subsections. The major quarters are:
The three subsections are:
Some of the included photos are identified with larger events, such as H.S. Wong's 1937 photograph of a lone child crying at a demolished train station on "Bloody Saturday" as representative of the entire bombing of Shanghai. Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton's and Alexander Gardner's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War and American Civil War. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.