Looking for an Icon (2007)

Looking for an Icon examines the process by which photos become icons revealing that once a photo is published social forces are at work beyond the photographers control The film focuses on four World Press Photo winners including Eddie Adamss 1968 photo of the public execution of a Viet Cong prisoner an anonymous photographers last image of Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup Charlie Coles 1989 photo of a lone student confronting tanks in Tiananmen Square and David Turnleys 1991 photo of a grieving soldier during the first Gulf War