We bring you a selection of 10 iconic black and white photos.

A Sailor and a Nurse in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Albert Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue

Construction of New York’s Rockefeller Center at the height by Charles Ebbets

Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”

Portrait of victims of the famine in the province of Madras, India by Willoughby Wallace Hooper

Self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963 by Malcolm W. Browne

Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin 1945

The flag raising at Iwo Jima

The Hindenburg Disaster