The Story Behind TIME’s 100 Most Influential Photos
Jun 29, 2017, 12:40 PM
How do you quantify a photograph’s influence?
Over the last three years, TIME has worked with international curators, historians, photo editors and photographers around the world to answer that question and draw up a list of the 100 most influential photographs of all time. Their thoughtful nominations whittled the field.
From there, we assigned TIME reporters to see if those held up to scrutiny.