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London Tower Bridge. 1900.

Photo by George Rinhart.

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Aretha Franklin by Walter Iooss. Jr.

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James Gandolfini by Michael O'Neill

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Frida Khalo by Toni Frissell

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Kurt Cobain by Charles Peterson

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Tilda Swinton by Jack Davison

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Photo by Greg Constantine

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Marlon Brando is fascinated by a dragonfly during the filming of Apocalypse Now in Pagsanjan, Philippines, in 1976

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark

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Noon Shot in Poly Plaza, Beijing, China, by Jian Wang.

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Photo by Edith Gerin

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Sean Penn in his Manhattan dressing room in 1983

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark

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Bill Cunningham by Witold Riedel

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Mick Jagger by Annie Leibovitz

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Salma Hayek by Gilles Bensimon

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Amanda and her cousin Amy in Valdese, North Carolina, in 1990

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark

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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., in his silver pressure suit with the helmet visor closed, prepares for his Mercury Redstone 3 launch on May 5, 1961. Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule lifted off at 9:34 a.m. from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and flew a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds. He became the first American to fly into space.

During the rocket's acceleration, Shepard was subjected to 6.3 g, or 6.3 times his normal weight, just before shut down of the Redstone engine, two minutes and 22 seconds after liftoff. Soon after, America's first space traveler got his first view of the Earth. "What a beautiful view," Shepard said. His spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, 302 miles from Cape Canaveral, where he and Freedom 7 were recovered by helicopter and transported to the awaiting aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain.

Image Credit: NASA

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Photo by  Seamus Murphy