TIME GREAT IMAGES OF THE 20th CENTURY

The photographs that define our times. There are no fashion photographs, no art photographs and no formal photographs. There are no funny animal pictures and no human-interest pictures. Instead, the emphasis is on the historic pictures that constitute a visual map of our times - and on a few lesser-known pictures that shed a revealing light on the ways and days of life in the twentieth century. Rather than trying to find a picture of the century, we have concentrated on pictures that are great on their own terms, those that endure in our mind as icons of the times.