In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits Hardcover | Pages: 504 pages

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Title	:	In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits
Author	:	Leah Bendavid-Val
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 504 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2004 by National Geographic Society (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Art. Photography. Nonfiction. Reference

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Pick this up immediately. It's phenomenal. A true gift of patience and persistence from some of the very best photographers our world has had.

Each image will (or should) startle, awe or grip you. The reaction is immediate every time you turn the page. One of the best collections you're bound to see (though I do like "Life" magazine's photography almost as much), and a true testament to the human condition over the last 100 years.

I've seen a lot of comments here (and elsewhere) about "Afghan Girl," which stands as the penultimate photo recognized as a National Geographic photo. Yes, it's here and it's just as phenomenal as always. However, I latched onto many of the others more, most of which I had never seen because they were of times and places past. The two images that reached out and really impacted me are the one of the African wrestler's and the boy whose goats were killed by a runaway taxi. Power and total lack of power - just amazing.

On the off chance you both stumble upon both this book and this comment, I would love to hear what your favorites were as well. Enjoy!

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Original Title:	In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits
ISBN:	079227363X (ISBN13: 9780792273639)
Edition Language:	English

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Love this photography book.

Awesome. A real, enduring pleasure.

Even as a child, I loved to read National Geographics. Actually, as a child, I was already a voracious reader but I was always drawn to the yellow covers they had back then, running my finger down the list and seeing what treasures were inside. National Geographic has long been revered for its superb photography, and it's one of the reasons I am a photographer today. This book is a group of 280 of its most iconic portraits. This book is proof that a photo can evoke deep feelings without even

A grand collection of fascinating photographs from around the globe. Text is limited in order to allow each image, captured through a camera lens, to be interpreted by the viewer.

This large (and heavy!) volume showcases decades of National Geographic portrait photographs. As with all photos collected for a printed book, those here are a mixed bag. There are a number of technically first-rate photos plus a few that are iconic but many are not that interesting when divorced from the articles they were originally published with. I did find the essays excellent though with their ruminations on photography and portraits and especially on the history of and philosophy behind

My relatives from Inisheer, Aran islands, County Galway, Ireland are in a photo in this book. I saw the exhibition of many of the photos in this book in Washington, D.C.

Oh my goodness, there are some really incredible photos here, from the early 1900s on. I would dance a jig if I had taken any one of them. Fab.