License to Shoot Trivia Quiz

Answer: Winston Churchill

Photograph taken: Winston Churchill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winston_Churchill_1941_photo_by_Yousuf_Karsh.jpg

"He looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant I took the photograph." The United States had just entered World War II, and Winston Churchill was visiting the Americas to help bolster war morale. In Canada, he defiantly explained that Britain wasn't going to be beaten, and afterwards, Yousuf Karsh got a chance to take his portrait. The belligerent Churchill eventually appeared on Life magazine, and became a symbol of defiance during a difficult era. A happy version of him taken at the same time became much less famous.

Answer: Guerrillero Heroico

Photograph taken: Ernesto Guevara.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico

The Guerrillero Heroico (Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) was none other than Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He was in Havana attending a memorial service and protest for those who had died when the freighter La Coubre exploded, an event sometimes attributed to the CIA. Alberto Korda took the now-famous 'Guerrillero Heroico' picture when Che came out for a few seconds when Fidel Castro was giving a speech. Because he was a Communist, he never demanded payment for use of the picture. It has since been used in many places, including the Cuban 3-peso bill.

Answer: Afghan Girl

Photograph taken: Sharbat Gula.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

Long before her true name was known, Sharbat Gula was the Afghan Girl. She was one of many who had fled the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and was living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Her face appeared on National Geographic's June 1985 issue, and became one of its most famous pictures. In 2002, Steve McCurry found her again, and for the first time in her life she saw her own photograph. He shot a picture of her again, showing that though she was about 30, decades of conflict had made her look much, much older.

Answer: James Dean

Photograph taken: James Dean.
http://www.photographersgallery.com/photo.asp?id=59

James Dean dropped out of college to begin an acting career. In 1951, he moved to New York and resided on 68th Street. It was there that he met Roy Schatt, who shot a series of pictures of James in what has been called his crowning achievement. James Dean had appeared in commercials, TV series, and starred in three movies after which he died in an accident on his way to an auto racing event. His early death made his brief life something of a legendary event. The apartment he once lived in on 68th Street has become something of a shrine, and bears graffiti praising him.

Answer: Farrah Fawcett

Photograph taken: Farrah Fawcett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett#Rise_to_stardom

Farrah Fawcett started her acting career in Hollywood in 1968. Her big break came in 1976, when Pro Arts Inc wanted to create a poster of her. After a couple of unsatisfying shoots, she insisted that Bruce McBroom be the photographer. Visiting her house in Los Angeles, he took 40 rolls of film, and let her pick her favorite shot. Pro Arts wholly approved of her pick, and turned it into the pinup poster of her in a red swimsuit. When printed, the poster sold tens of millions of copies. Soon after the shoot, she appeared on the first season of "Charlie's Angels".

Answer: Tank Man

Photograph taken: Tank Man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Yeah, the Chinese government is not very fond of protestors, and sent in the military to crack down on protestors who had occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks. The scene wasn't pretty, and involved a lot of violence -- and a little nonviolence. When tanks rolled down the streets, a single man stood in their way, and stopped them cold. At least five agents managed to shoot the scene from the nearby Beijing Hotel, risking a very real chance of imprisonment in doing so. And luckily for him, Tank Man's true identity and fate remain unknown.

Answer: Muhammad Ali

Photograph taken: Muhammad Ali.
http://www.abbeville.com/interiors.asp?ISBN=0789209039

Shortly after his first (victorious) bout against Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. A rematch was held a year later in Lewiston, Maine. Neil Leifer was there, shooting the match as he would for most of Ali's career. Not even through the first round, Ali delivered his 'anchor punch' which knocked Liston out and ended the match. Although some controversy lingers over the suspiciously fast match, Leifer's photo of Ali standing over Liston is nonetheless considered to be one of the most memorable in sports history.

Answer: Conrad Schumann

Photograph taken: Conrad Schumann.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann

Before it was a wall, the Berlin Wall was a low-level barbed wire fence. Only 19 at the time, Conrad Schumann was posted to guard the wall as it was being built. In an apparently unplanned moment, he jumped over the fence when West Germans invited him to come over. Peter Leibing was the only person to take any shots at him, and was in the area on a tip of a potential defector. Thousands of people defected during the Cold War (both ways, by the way), but Schumann's leap may have been the most iconic of them all.

Answer: Keith Richards

Photograph taken: Keith Richards.
http://shop.ethanrussell.com/collections/the-amazing-keith/products/keith-richards-patience-please-1972

Perhaps it's the irony of Keith Richards posing next to a "drug-free America" poster that makes the photo so memorable. Maybe it's those droopy sunglasses and that suave pose. Either way, Ethan Russell had shot a powerful photo. He moved on from the shot very quickly, as customs officials threatened to confiscate the film. Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones went through their 1972 tour in the Americas in what some would call one of the "benchmarks of an era". Ethan Russell has shot numerous photographs of musicians, and regularly covered The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who.

Answer: Albert Einstein

Photograph taken: Albert Einstein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_in_popular_culture

Albert Einstein needs no introduction. The original photo of him sticking out his tongue shows him in a car, between his wife and Frank Aydelotte, with rain dripping down the windows. It was retouched and pared down to only his face, and has since become one of the most popular images of a brilliant man whose facial features were already distinctive and memorable. Einstein himself enjoyed the photo and ordered several prints of it for himself. Arthur Sasse is a UPI photographer that has taken many memorable images over the years, but none stick out like the tongue of a genius.