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Culled from among the millions of images in National Geographic's vast visual archive and capturing a dazzling variety of scenes from every corner of the Earth, Wide Angle is every bit as panoramic as its title suggests, a collection of landscapes and cityscapes, familiar views, and unknown vistas alike brought to new life.
In these pages we visit every continent and the oceans that both separate and link them, in the company of some of the world's early photographers to such modern masters as Sam Abell, William Albert Allard, Jodi Cobb, and many more. Each of the book's twelve chapters focuses on a particular region, its natural splendors and wildlife, its peoples and their cultures; each is introduced by an essay by Ferdinand Protzman, who reflects upon the art of photography and its many layers of meaning.
Here are big-city streets awash in neon from New York to Sydney, dusty North African towns, and the long-deserted ruins of Machu Picchu. One spread discovers a camel caravan on a lonely trek across the immense, empty Sahara Desert while another captures more than two million Hajjis worshiping at Mecca's most sacred shrine. Two Cheetahs are frozen in mid-leap; a stork wings its way across the frame in a pastel composition worthy of Hokusai.
Drawn from the National Geographic's photo archive, many of the 260 color photos of this volume are presented in two-page plates (without a border), though many are in a layout taking them across the fold that makes them more difficult to appreciate. The photos are grouped by region; each is accompanied by a brief caption. The volume is oversize, at 10.25x10.25<">. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In 250 glorious photographs Wide Angle: 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.
In 250 glorious photographs Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places showcases every part of the world. Delving deeply into our century-old picture archive, our new book-the third in the "greatest photographs" series-presents the world's hugely 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 we might otherwise never see.
National Geographic's quest since its founding in 1888 has been to describe "the world and all that's in it." To fulfill that quest, photographers set out to document every imaginable place on earth, from the most remote to the most familiar; from the most primitive to the most sophisticated. National Geographic photographers have recorded the world's places close up, in sweeping breadth, in depth, and over time.
Wide Angle is divided into twelve chapters, each depicting a unique geography (see list below) and the culture and nature that inhabit it. Chapters are introduced by short, 1,500-word essays. The book's length-504 pages-allows us to develop each chapter to look carefully and deeply at a region's special qualities. The geography and the life within it comes forward with its own unique character, its own special and unforgettable sense of place.
"EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
"OCEANIA
"CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA
"MIDDLE EAST
"NORTHERN EUROPE
"CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
"WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
"NORTH AFRICA
"SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
"NORTH AMERICA
"THE CARIBBEAN, MESO- AND SOUTH AMERICA
"POLAR REGIONS
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