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Snapshots in the Dark Episodes

    5. Lennart Nilsson - The Inner Child

    5/5 The impact of Nilsson's photograph of a foetus taken inside its mother's womb.

    4. Eddie Adams - Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968

    4/5 How Adams' photograph, seen around the world, impacted upon support for the Vietnam War.

    3. Four Legs Muybridge

    3/5 How Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals revolutionised our understanding of movement.

    2. Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1867

    2/5 Colin Ford discovers how Cameron changed portraiture forever.

    1. Jacob A Riis - Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station, 1895

    1/5 How Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact.