It was an act that caused serious unrest and inspired Hollywood to make several films: 45 years ago, San Francisco’s gay city councilman Harvey Milk died at the hands of an ex-police officer.
People have always tried to capture their history in pictures. In the Stone Age there were cave paintings. In ancient Egypt, reliefs decorated the burial chambers of the pharaohs. In ancient Rome, mosaic floors told of great legion victories.
In the Middle Ages and modern times, generals took painters with them to the battlefields. War reportage in pictures is not an invention of our time. Albrecht Adam, for example, accompanied Napoleon on his Russian campaign and made sketches every day that formed the basis for later battle paintings.
star shows pictures of world history
With the invention of photography, painting was finally freed from its task of documentation. Now photographs were taken that often made history themselves.
In the star-Photo series we show you pictures that captured moments in world history. Click through the picture gallery.