1954 | North America • Canada | First issue of Sports Illustrated (Vol.1 No.1) and includes a photograph by Mark Kauffman of the mile race between Dr. Roger Bannister (England) and Michael Landy (Australia) in Vancouver when both men beat the four minute barrier. (16 August 1954) |
1955 | North America • USA
| Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes publish The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
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1955 | North America • USA | Edward Steichen organizes The Family of Man Exhibition which was shown first at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York but tours to widespread acclaim and vast crowds. It includes 503 works by 273 photographers from 68 countries.
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1956 | Europe • France
| William Klein publishes Life Is Good & Good for You in New York. |
1956 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Josef Sudek publishes Josef Sudek Fotografie. |
1956 | Europe • Netherlands
| Ed Van der Elsken publishes Love on the Left Bank.
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1957 | North America • USA
| One of the earliest digital images created showing Walden Kirsch, baby son of Russell Kirsch, the leader of the team at National Bureau of Standards (NIST) that developed the image scanner. |
1959 | North America • USA | Aaron Siskind publishes Photographs
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1959 | Europe • Netherlands | Ed Van der Elsken publishes Jazz. |
1959 | North America • USA
| Robert Frank publishes The Americans. A French edition published by Delpire had been released in 1958.
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1959 | North America • USA
| Richard Avedon and Truman Capote publish Observations. |
1960 | North America • USA | Irving Penn publishes Moments Preserved. |
1960 | Asia • Japan | Inejiro Asanuma (Chairman of Japan's Socialist Party) is assassinated in the Hibiya Hall in Tokyo by a right wing student. Yasushi Nagao, working for the Tokyo daily newspaper Mainichi photographs the stabbing. (12 October 1960) |
1961 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt publishes Perspective of Nudes. |
1962 | North America • USA
| Frederick Sommer publishes Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 Photographs |
1963 | Asia • Japan
| Eikoh Hosoe and the novelist Yukio Mishima publish Killed by Roses. The ardent nationalist Mishima commits suicide by seppuku on 25 November 1970. |
1963 | Asia • Vietnam | Thich Quang Doc, a Buddhist priest, burns himself to death as a protest over religious freedom on a street in Saigon. Malcolm Browne (AP) photographs the protest. (11 June 1963) |
1963 | North America • USA | Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald - the supposed killer of President John F. Kennedy who had died two days earlier. Robert Jackson (Dallas Times-Herald) photographs the exact moment of the shooting and is awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize. (24 November 1963) |