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The Essay The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything Episodes

    The Tichborne Claimant

    5/5 Exploring how an 1866 photograph of a butcher taken in Australia changed British law.

    The Broom Cottages

    4/5 Elizabeth Edwards on W Jerome Harrison's photo of the Broom cottages in Warwickshire.

    The Dogon

    3/5 Jeanne Haffner discusses how aerial photography changed the spaces we live in.

    The Nebula in Orion

    2/5 Omar Nasim discusses the very first pictures of a nebula, taken by Henry Draper in 1880.

    Anna Bertha's Hand

    1/5 Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.