But what makes the image profound, almost redemptive, is its foreground figure, our Everyman, standing amid the remains of some burnt-out vehicle, the spokes of wheels and steering wheels enduring in the debris.
Since joining the paper in 1999, he has covered oyster shuckers and opera singers, Deadheads and D-Day vets, sauerkraut and the Scriptures and more, always seeking the enduring in the everyday.
Relations steadily worsened between the Spanish and French components of the besieging force, a trend that was exacerbated by the lack of progress they were making, the appalling conditions they were enduring in the open and the steady stream of casualties being caused by the counter-bombardment and outbreaks of epidemic disease.
Last year, public anger about the lack of basic services and enduring unemployment in the township triggered the sort of protests that have become increasingly common across South Africa.
In the coming years Springsteen released three more albums that each took an instant and enduring place in the rock pantheon - "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (1978), "The River" (1980) and "Nebraska" (1982).
Schoen's design does not look like anything more than the usual loft building, but an 1886 article in The Brooklyn Magazine advanced it as "one of the most stupendous and enduring edifices in the known world".
Part of it is the unpopular presidency of George W. Bush, which ended in financial disaster and enduring conflicts in the Middle East.
If you are a Cubs fan, as I have been for 45 years, you're probably tired of peeing in metal troughs and enduring claustrophobia in the concourse.
The title alludes to the obscure nature of, not only Angola's diamond trade, but also the inescapable and enduring corruption in the oil industry.
