21 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Famous Things

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Sometimes an image is so famous that we think we already know everything there is to know about it. We reached out to one of our esteemed image manipulators, and asked her to show us the context we've been missing behind the most famous pictures from history and pop culture.

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This dreamy-eyed honey is brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

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1972 CRACKEDCON 1998

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CRACKEDCON This typical-looking Oxford student and young groom is Stephen Hawking

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21 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Famous Things

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