TIME Magazine's top 100 defining photos of 2024 (Pop Culture Version)

[Feanor]

 

 

TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2024

 

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Every year the TIME photo department sits down to curate the strongest images that crossed our path over the previous 12 months.

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What follows is our attempt to string together that tension and bring it to the eyes of our readers. We hope it captures not only the events that defined the world over the last months, but also why, on the cusp of an uncertain new year, that world feels the way it does.

 

Warning: The vast majority of the 100 photos chosen are of political nature, depict wars or other terrors, natural disasters, tragedies or are other types of potentially upsetting graphic images.

 

But given the forum we're all in, I wanted to specifically highlight the pop culture/entertainment-related or other types of "light hearted" photos picked by TIME Magazine among their 100 Top Photos of 2024:

 

 

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis of Sweden in action as he vaults a new world record of 6.25 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, on Aug. 5.

 

 

Kindergartners at Myers Elementary School in Grand Blanc, Mich., use paper-plate glasses to safely watch the solar eclipse, on April 8. The total solar eclipse, which began its path across the U.S. in Texas and exited 2,000 miles later in Maine, was the last that will be visible in the contiguous United States until 2044.

 

 

People take pictures as a 2-month-old female pygmy hippo named Moo Deng eats with her mother Jona at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Sept. 16. Born on July 10 and revealed to the public later that month, the baby hippo (and her iconic facial expressions) quickly became a viral internet sensation.

 

 

Novak Djokovic slides at the net for a forehand against Francisco Cerundolo in the Men's Singles fourth round match during Day Nine of the 2024 French Open in Paris, on June 3.

 

 

With the Sphere visible through a window, friends on a bachelorette weekend ride the Monorail in Las Vegas, on Feb. 4.

 

 

Athletes compete in the men's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on July 31.

 

 

Brazil's Gabriel Medina appears to levitate during the men's surfing competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, held in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, on July 29. He earned the highest single-wave score in Olympic history and went on to win the bronze medal.

 

 

Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelce celebrates with Taylor Swift during NFL Super Bowl 58 LVIII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs in Las Vegas, on Feb. 11.

 

 

Yankees fans interfere with Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers after he catches a fly ball in foul territory during Game Four of the 2024 World Series in New York City on Oct. 29. The play resulted in an out; the Dodgers won the series in five games.

 

 

Fans record videos on their phones as Chappell Roan performs at the Governors Ball music festival in Queens, N.Y., June 9.

 

 

Noah Lyles of the U.S., in Lane 3, defeats Kishane Thompson of Jamaica and Fred Kerley of the U.S. to win the men's 100m final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on Aug. 4.

 

 

Gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Team Brazil, silver medalist Simone Biles of Team United States and, at the time, bronze medalist Jordan Chiles of Team United States celebrate on the podium at the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Medal Ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on Aug. 5.

 

 

Cheerleaders practicing at Valley Elite All Stars on Oct. 3 in Allentown, PA. 

 

 

Ballerinas gather before setting the Guinness World Record for most ballerina dancers en pointe simultaneously at the Plaza Hotel in New York, on April 17. The record was achieved by Youth America Grand Prix (USA) as 353 dancers held en pointe for one minute.

 

 

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, the Democratic presidential nominee, appears with Maya Rudolph on "Saturday Night Live," in New York, on Nov. 2

 

 

[Lovett]

 

[Spicy Pisces]

7 minutes ago, Feanor said:

[tost1]

5 minutes ago, Lovett said:

 

I hate novaxx but I would in a second

[XVIIII]

7 minutes ago, Lovett said:

 

I'd cash in my 401K just for the chance to feel the heat radiating off his gooch in this pic.

[Selegend]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[dumbsparce]

I was expecting to see the crotch of that French athlete and the crying face of the Italian boxer from the Olympics since they circulated way more than most of these pictures.

[rhaenyra]

Is Anthony Ammirati's pole pole vault pic not iconic enough? Or what? 

[Acuminatus]

That Djokovic match was such an impressive comeback win at his age. He even withdrew due to injury after that match.