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A Sense df Place
Each of the 260 brilliant photographs in this marvelous collection is unique. Some are alive with bright colors and sparkling highlights, others evoke softer, quieter moods in muted hues and subtle gradations. Where one summons a vast, still landscape that fades into distant silence, the next vibrates with the energy of a charging bull or an exuberant child at play. But whether they show us crowded city streets or empty wilderness, all of these arresting pictures share one compelling quality: a sure sense of place that pulls us into the frame and turns an image into an experience.
Every great place has its own special spirit, and every photographer represented here exhibits a rare gift for capturing it. Encompassing all seven continents an<J more than a century of superb photography, their work does more than see, it perceives—and invites us to share the wonderful magic of discovery.
WIDE ANGLE
NATIONAL GEGGRAPHIC GREATEST PLACES
Mere words—even superlatives—don't do justice to
this extraordinary book; its 260 breathtaking photo-
grapiis defy description and demand to be explored
witli the same inspired intensity that tiiey bring to their
wonderful portrait of our world. Culled from among
the millions of images in National Geographies 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 superb collection of
landscapes and cityscapes, familiar views, and unknown
vistas alike brought to new and vivid 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 a thoughtful 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 cap-
tures 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. Every vision
is arresting, unique, unforgettable.
A companion volume to Through the Lens and In
Focus, Wide Angle completes a magnificent trilogy
that spans the globe and sweeps across more than a
century of dramatic photography to show us our-
selves and the world around us in all its wonderful
wealth of glories great and small.
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