Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places (National Geographic Collectors Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1426208936 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Wide Angle, National Geographic photographers have recorded the world's places close up, in sweeping breadth, in depth, and over time.. Each chapter is introduced by award-winning cultural writer and critic Ferdinand Protzman, whose essays accent the stunning photographs by renowned National Geographic photographers. The photographs are landscapes, cityscapes, famous landmarks, and unfamiliar spots that reveal special qualities of geography or culture one might otherwise never see. Both essays and photographs carefully examine a region's special qualities, creating unique character and its own special and unforgettable sense of place. 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. 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. In 250 glorious photographs Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places documents the beauty and depth of every part of the world
Many of the images, from the National Geographic Society's 10 million-image archive, have never been published before. . From Publishers Weekly Spanning the world, from Northeast Europe to Southeast Asia, these 260 photos offer a spectacular view of regions of unimaginable, often haunting beauty. Meditative introductions to each region of the world consider questions such as our stereotypical views of Asia and the ambiguity of evocations of the Middle East, their meaning "depending largely on what one believes." But the real attraction is the full-color photos: sometimes mysterious, like Karen Kasmaski's photos of sunflowers with Mount Fuji emerging from the shadows in the
His reviews, essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, ARTnews,The Harvard Review, The Forward and Zeit-Magazin. Ferdinand Protzman is an award-winning cultural critic, author and contributing editor for ARTnews magazine. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio. . He has written four books and contributed to others
Like a collection of photos from the magazine In any given issue of National Geographic magazine, there will be a handful of photos that really wow me, a handful that interest me, and the rest that I glance at and skip over. This book is like that.Other customer reviews criticize that the title (and subtitle, for that matter) doesn't match the contents; I agree.That said, my only real complaint with the book is the same one I have with almost every photo book, and that is that the spine of the book splits the photos in half. Unfortunately, in this case, it only splits those photos that do live up to the book title, the wide ones.I don't know of any photographer who wo. Not what I expected Melissa M When I first saw this big beautiful book it was on the coffee table of a dentist's office, and after flipping through it I wanted to have a copy for myself. I guess the item stayed "saved for later" in my cart for too long, because when I finally purchased it, the original version was no longer available, and I accepted the substitute offered. I didn't think to check the actual dimensions of the substitution, because as it turned out, what I received was almost half the size of the original that I thought I was getting (approx 6in x 6in vs expected approx 10in x 10in). Now I'm left with an $11 book I don't really want that. Luly said Good, could be better. There are many beautiful pictures in this book.Some images are really impressive, have soul and cause emotions.But the way the book was made somehow ruins those emotions.Some of the best images are "interrupted" by the centerfold. Very poor positioning!Because the book is so thick, you are unable to appreciate those pictures.This kind of breaks the magicDon't they have a specialist to do this at NG?The book should be larger, wider. Some pictures are unecessarily small, sharing half of a page with some uninteresting phrase/text.I am still happy I bought it, it's a nice book and I really like many images, but it was poorely