Exploring the multifaceted nature of love across cultures and history, this captivating collection showcases stunning photographs from National Geographic's archives. Each image narrates a unique story, revealing the various expressions of love, including courtship, friendship, and charity. The book invites readers to appreciate the depth and diversity of love experienced by humanity at different ages and moments in time.
The volume captures the essence of human labor through a stunning collection of photographs from National Geographic's extensive archive. It features a diverse array of individuals engaged in various occupations across different cultures and time periods, from bustling urban settings to remote villages. Readers will encounter a rich tapestry of professions, including cowboys, street musicians, and chefs, showcasing the universal nature of work. The juxtaposition of images highlights both the vibrancy of city life and the tranquility of rural existence.
In 250 glorious photographs Wide National Geographic Greatest Places documents the beauty and depth of every part of the world. Delving deeply into a picture archive that houses over ten million images, with many photographs being published for the first time, this new book-the third and final in the "greatest photographs" series-presents the world's amazingly diverse places with epic grandeur, unparalleled intimacy, romantic beauty, and gritty realism. The photographs are landscapes, cityscapes, famous landmarks, and unfamiliar spots that reveal special qualities of geography or culture one might otherwise never see.Spanning more than eleven decades, the images in Wide Angle are divided into twelve chapters, each depicting a unique geography—including East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Polar Regions. Each chapter is introduced by award-winning cultural writer and critic Ferdinand Protzman, whose essays accent the stunning photographs by renowned National Geographic photographers. Both essays and photographs carefully examine a region's special qualities, creating unique character and its own special and unforgettable sense of place. In Wide Angle, National Geographic photographers have recorded the world's places close up, in sweeping breadth, in depth, and over time.
Essays by Andrea Holzherr, Rupert Pfab, Timothy Persons and Ferdinand Protzman.