All are included in a multimedia project featuringTime magazine's most influential images of all time, released through a new book, videos and a website. Many of the photos or frames from films are familiar, ingrained in the collective conscious, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Falling Man, taken on 9/11 by Richard Drew of The Associated Press. Others, and their stories, are little known, such as the tiny snap by California software engineer Philippe Kahn of his new baby, the first mobile phone picture, after he rigged a flip phone with a digital camera in 1997. So is Frame 313 of the amateur, 8-millimeter film shot by Abraham Zapruder of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Harold Edgerton, for instance, while tinkering in his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, laid the foundation for the modern electronic photo flash with his 1957 Milk Drop Coronet.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 17, 2016 21:21 UTC