Time magazine picks 100 most influential photos of all time

FILE – In this Feb 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. This iconic image is included in Time magazine’s most influential images of all time, released Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, through a new book, videos and a website, Time.com/100photos. AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File

NEW YORK  — A single drop of milk, a newborn baby and the ravages of war and terrorism are included in a multimedia project featuring Time magazine’s most influential images of all time, released Thursday through a new book, videos and online.

Many of the photos or frames from films are familiar, ingrained in the collective conscious, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Falling Man,” taken on 9/11 by Richard Drew of The Associated Press.

Others, and their stories, are little known, such as the tiny snap by California software engineer Philippe Kahn of his new baby, the first cell-phone picture, after he rigged a flip phone with a digital camera in 1997.

FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file picture, a person falls headfirst from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center. This iconic image is included in Time magazine’s most influential images of all time, released Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, through a new book, videos and a website, Time.com/100photos. AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

The magazine’s editors consulted historians and photo editors and curators around the world, while Time staff wrote essays on each image.