1936. Marina Ginesta became the icon of resistance against Franco during the Spanish Civil War thanks to the German photographer Hans Gutmann. Marina, 17, posed with a rifle on top of the Hotel Colón in Barcelona.
The 1936 Olympic Games. The Nazi regime aimed to highlight the supremacy of the Aryan race. This photograph immortalizes the defeat of this goal. Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete competing for the United States won 4 gold medals in the Olympics that year.
The figure of Winston Churchill stands before a literally and figuratively ruined England. The British politician who dared to confront the Nazis was one of the great figures of World War II.
June 8, 1972. "We have to get out of here, they will bomb us, we will die." Kim Phuc, the girl in the photograph, was fleeing the bombing. She was hit by Napalm and seriously injured.
The most reproduced image in the history of photography. Havana, 5 March 1960. The photograph is taken by Alberto Korda at a memorial dedicated to the victims of the bombing of La Coubre, and published internationally only seven years later.
In the visor of Buzz Aldrin´s helmet, the reflection of the improvised photographer: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. The Sea of Tranquility as a backdrop. The illustration of the success of the Apollo 11 space mission.
