National Geographic Photographs: The Milestones - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792275209 ISBN 13: 9780792275206

Publisher: National Geographic, 1999

Synopsis

A beautifully assembled gift book collects the very best of National Geographic photography, including images never before published in the magazine.

About this title

From Library Journal:

National Geographic has a trusted place in American life. Its photographs have always been its strength, yet gathering many of the best or most dazzling, as has been done here, could easily result in a collection of fragments--photos that try to explain cultures, peoples, and places without doing so. To get around this problem, the editors have come up with an interesting hook: showing us the tricks and techniques that are used to get startling images in remote locales. Not quite a photographic how-to, this is instead an appreciation of the effort it takes to achieve visual results under nearly impossible circumstances. In National Geographic, every village, market, mountain, and harbor can seem like a diorama in the cautious hands of gifted but not analytically daring photographers--an impression this book counters by giving its visuals context and risk. Libraries will buy this book because so many readers trust National Geographic, but it is less a means of exploring this incredibly fascinating globe than of taking a peek at the adventures and intelligence necessary to capture its nature, places, and people.
-David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., CT
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0792275209
• ISBN 13: 9780792275206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Bendavid Val Leah