1960
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The Blade of Ultranationalism: Capturing the Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
In this chilling 1960 photograph, 17-year-old extremist Otoya Yamaguchi is caught mid-lunge as he strikes Japanese socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma with a traditional samurai sword during a live televised debate in Tokyo.
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The Raw Grit of Bébel: Jean-Paul Belmondo in the Boxing Ring, 1960
Sweat-drenched and focused, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo guards his face in a 1960 Paris boxing ring, capturing the unpolished intensity of the man who would soon redefine French cinema as the icon of the New Wave.
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The Final Vigil: Patrice Lumumba in Captivity, December 1960
A disheveled and captive Patrice Lumumba sits in a makeshift detention room in this haunting 1960 photograph, a visual testament to the tragic final days of the first Prime Minister of the Congo.
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Girls in the Windows: A Fleeting Masterpiece of 1960s New York
Captured mere hours before its destruction, forty women in vibrant attire pose within the skeletal window frames of a Manhattan brownstone, immortalized by Ormond Gigli in a singular act of mid-century artistic defiance.