1969’s 12Powerful Images
Photographs that influenced and shocked
1969 was a year not like any other, and the photography of the time is like nothing we had ever seen. From the Vietnam War to the protests for peace, the end of the Presidential hopes of Ted Kennedy and the life of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick, Warhol and the Factory, the work of Avedon, The Beatles cover of Abbey Road, walking on the moon, the miracle of Woodstock, the Stonewall Inn Riots and the beginning of the LGBTQ rights fight, the Black is Beautiful movement and breakthroughs, and what felt like the end of it all the Manson Family Murders on August 8 and 9 with more grisly discoveries to come from The Family. It was a time when images on TV and in print communicated to a mass audience for the first time what was really happening in the world graphically and truthfully.
Here are the images that can still move us, haunt us and touch us:
