Photography: American Iconic Images

Jasper Johns, Three Flags , 1958.

Cultural Icons

Readily recognized and usually represents an object or concept with great cultural significance to a wide cultural group.

Representation of an object or person that may be regarded with special status as important to a particular group of people, a place, or a period in history.

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936.

Dorothea Lange, Destitute Pea Pickers in California, 1936.

Joe Rosenthal, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945.

Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day in Times Square, Aug. 14, 1945.

Arthur Sasse, Photograph of Albert Einstein on his 72nd

Birthday, 1951.