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For over 30 years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. This volume presents some of the finest commissioned photographs worldwide in four sections: reportage, portraiture, style, and conceptual photography, including photo illustration.

An historical collection of the Society's best photographs-- from the time National Geographic's first editor and president began collecting pictures, until today--divided into four themes: "Wilderness, Exploration and Adventure"; "Wildlife" ; "Peoples, Cultures and Lifestyles"; and "Science and Climate Change." Includes two introductory essays and a one-hundred page appendix referencing the entire collection.

"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...

Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover.

The photographers at National Geographic reveal wonders of nature so uniquely beautiful that we're filled with hope and inspiration to celebrate and protect the world's environments. Visions of Paradise is the magnificent result of their work. Through breathtaking images from across the globe, and stories as exquisite as the glance of a leopard seal, these men and women share the places they have personally found to be Heaven on Earth. Explore stunning...

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant...