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National Geographic: The Photographs.
Numerous contributing photographers. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val.
National Geographic, Washington, 2002.
336 pp.,
245 color illustrations,
10¾x12".
Publisher's Description
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
THE PHOTOGRAPHS
An enduring bestseller since its introduction, National
Geographic The Photographs is a brilliant retrospective of the
visually stunning and world-renowned photographic achieve
ments of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.
National Geographic The Photographs is a captivating, full-color presentation of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine's best and most memorable
photographs of the last 25 years, the facts behind them, and the stories
of the men and women who took them.
Page after page of this beautiful, large-format book presents stunning images that capture the major themes of the National Geographic
Society: wildlife on land and underwater, cultures in the United States
and around the world, and science-from astronomy and archaeology
to the human senses. Accompanying the images are the photographers
accounts of the techniques they used and their adventures in the field- sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying, and always vividly
compelling. National Geographic The Photographs also includes an intro
ductory chapter that chronicles the evolution of the photographic principles that have kept National Geographic at the forefront of the field
and presents the visionaries who believed that photography had the
power to tell important truths.
• Acclaim for National Geographic The Photographs:
'The photographs are products of extremely enterprising men and women,
highly skilled in their craft, rich in resources and driven in their quest for
great shots.'-The New York Times Book Review
'National Geographic photography has no equal ... the best of the best in the
world.'-The Chicago Tribune
LEAH BENDAVID-VAL is a writer
and curator o f photography, a senior editor
for National Geographic Books, and the
Editorial Director o f National Geographic
inSIGHT She has written about photography for the Washington Post, National
Geographic, and other publications, and
has organized photography exhibitions for
the Corcoran Gallery o f Art, the International Center of Photography, and the
Pushkin Museum o f Fine Art in Moscow.
Bendavid-Val is the author o f Propaganda
& Dreams: Photographing the 1930s
in the USSR and the US; Changing
Reality: Recent Soviet Photography,
and Stories On Paper and Glass. She
lives in Washington, D.C.
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