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30 of the Most Iconic and Influential Photos of All Time Colorized

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From Gordon Parks’ defining American Gothic to Frank Powolvy’s captivating portrait of Betty Grable and Eddie Adams’ harrowing Saigon Execution, countless photographs shot across the last 190 years have influenced history – altering our understanding of our world, impacting our governments’ policies and bearing witness to some of the world’s most important events.

Over the last three years, TIME worked with photo historians and editors, conducting thousands of interviews with photographers, picture subjects, their friends and family members and others, to present the list of the 100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time.

We asked the artist and photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize 30 of these iconic images.

See the full list of the 100 Most Influential Photos of All Time.

Sanna Dullaway is a photo editor based in Sweden.

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First Photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826.Getty Images
First Photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Getty Images
Boulevard Du Temple, Paris
Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, 1838.GraphicaArtis/Getty Images
Boulevard Du Temple, Paris
Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, 1838.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty Images
Valley of the Shadow of Death
The Valley of the Shadow of Death by Roger Fenton, 1855.The J. Paul Getty Museum
Valley of the Shadow of Death
The Valley of the Shadow of Death by Roger Fenton, 1855.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, 1860.Library of Congress
Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, 1860.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Library of Congress
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite by Carleton Watkins, 1861.The J. Paul Getty Museum
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite by Carleton Watkins, 1861.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Dead of Antietam by Alexander Gardner, 1862.Library of Congress
The Dead of Antietam by Alexander Gardner, 1862.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Library of Congress
Bandit's Roost, 59½ Mulberry Street by Jacob Riis, ca. 1888.Museum of the City of New York
Bandit's Roost, 59½ Mulberry Street by Jacob Riis, ca. 1888.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Museum of the City of New York
The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907.The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Girl Worker in Carolina Cotton Mill by Lewis Hine, 1908.Library of Congress
Girl Worker in Carolina Cotton Mill by Lewis Hine, 1908.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Library of Congress
Blind by Paul Strand, 1916.The J. Paul Getty Museum
Blind by Paul Strand, 1916.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Romanov Executionby Uknown Photographer, 1919.Harvard University
Romanov Executionby Uknown Photographer, 1919.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Harvard University
Adolf Hitler Climbs Stairs
Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally by Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934.Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Adolf Hitler Climbs Stairs
Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally by Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, 1936.Library of Congress
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, 1936.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Library of Congress
Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936.The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Terrified baby, who was almost only huma
Bloody Saturday by H.S. Wong, 1937.Office Of War Information/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Terrified baby, who was almost only huma
Bloody Saturday by H.S. Wong, 1937.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Office Of War Information/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
American Gothic by Gordon Parks, 1942.Library of Congress
American Gothic by Gordon Parks, 1942.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME/ original photograph: Library of Congress
Betty Grable by Frank Powolny, 1943.Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Betty Grable by Frank Powolny, 1943.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw by Unknown Photographer, 1943.Keystone/Getty Images
Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw by Unknown Photographer, 1943.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
ASAP NEWS IWO JIMA
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal, 1945.AP
ASAP NEWS IWO JIMA
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal, 1945.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP
Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki by Lieutenant Charles Levy, 1945.Office of War Information/National Archives
Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki by Lieutenant Charles Levy, 1945.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Office of War Information/National Archives
V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945.The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel by Margaret Bourke-White, 1946.The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel by Margaret Bourke-White, 1946.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Country Doctor by W. Eugene Smith, 1948.The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Country Doctor by W. Eugene Smith, 1948.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Thich Quang Duc
The Burning Monk by Malcolm Browne, 1963.AP
Thich Quang Duc
The Burning Monk by Malcolm Browne, 1963.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP
Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze by Unknown Photographer, 1966.Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images
Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze by Unknown Photographer, 1966.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images
Nguyen Van Lem; Bay Lop
Saigon Execution by Eddie Adams, 1968.AP
Nguyen Van Lem; Bay Lop
Saigon Execution by Eddie Adams, 1968.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP
The Terror of War by Nick Ut, 1972.AP
The Terror of War by Nick Ut, 1972.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP
OLYMPIA TERRORIST
Munich Massacre by Kurt Strumpf, 1972.AP
OLYMPIA TERRORIST
Munich Massacre by Kurt Strumpf, 1972.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP
Soweto Uprising by Sam Nzima, 1976.Sam Nzima
Soweto Uprising by Sam Nzima, 1976.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: Sam Nzima
Boat of No Smiles by Eddie Adams, 1977.AP
Boat of No Smiles by Eddie Adams, 1977.Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original photograph: AP

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