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Welcome to Famous Pictures:The Magazine! Your definitive source of information for the world's most famous images, power pictures, cultural snapshots or the defining images of our time.

Celebrated author Andrew-Hoskins calls these famous images flashframes. Iconic images that contribute to the creation of new memory. He writes that if disseminated and repeated on a mass scale these images often promote recognition or association with an historical event. However over time the actual events are forgotten and only the photo remains. Famous Pictures: The Magazine will fill in the blanks and restore the thousand words behind the picture.

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Featured Article     Since the dawn of photography there have been those who alter its images. The Soviets used altered images to erase history they didn't like, now almost every magazine uses airbrushes to erase their cover girl's unsightly cellulose. Click to see the 12 of the most famous altered images