Emmet Till, David Jackson, 1955
In August 1955, Emmet Till, a teenager from Chicago was visiting relatives in Mississippi where he stopped at a meat market. He encountered Carolyn Bryant, a white woman and was accused of flirting with her. Then her husband and half brother took Till, beat him, shot him, and strung barbed wire and a 75-pound metal fan around his neck and dumped the lifeless body in the Tallahatchie River. His mother came to identify Till and brought his lifeless body to Chicago insisting on an open casket. Now, thanks to a mother’s determination to expose the barbarousness of the crime, the public stopped ignoring these hideous acts.
The Hooded Man, Seargent Ivan Fredrick, 2003
Frederick was the senior enlisted man at Abu Ghraib prison, the facility on the outskirts of Baghdad that Saddam Hussein had made into a symbol of terror for all Iraqis. it was used as a detention center for suspected insurgents. Frederick was one of several soldiers who took part in the torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These soldiers took pictures of the mistreatment and shared them.
This photo was taken after 9/11. There is a man who jumped out one of the twin towers. Falling Man is one of the only widely seen pictures that shows someone dying.