National Geographic: 125 Years

Great photographs, but very less than expected in a book from Mat Geo which is famous for Photographs. The book is worth adding to your collection and referred to, to keep your memories alive of the bygone eras. I suggest this book to serious enthusiasts of not only reading and travel but also for aspiring photographers.

Okay

Has some really interesting stuff.

This was a gift for someone special. A beautifully bound, substantial volume and perfect for a book-loving, Nat Geo fan!

Good

A nice book.

I and my daughter loved it.Beautiful presentation and a collectors issue,,,A must have !

collective item who r seeking for unknown.

This used book was described by the seller as being "as new". It certainly was that. I've seen 'new' books in worse condition in bookstores. Needless to say, as a National Geographic publication, the content is superb. Through wonderful pictures, it covers key events in world history during the life of the magazine.

Ottimo e pienamente soddisfatto!!!

My Father was a a long time subscriber. He absolutely loved it

While most people who have spent hours leisurely going through their grandparents collection of old copies of National Geographic Magazine may not have realized it, they were enjoying some of the most important historical adaptations of photography, photojournalism and magazine reproduction.And while this book about the first 125 years of National Geographic may not have the most spectacular and beautiful photographs that have appeared in the journal over its first century and a quarter, it has a bunch of them. It also has a selection of many of the trail breaking examples of photographs to appear in magazine format.The purpose of the National Geographic Society was to disperse Geographic Information to the world. The National Geographic Magazine is technically the Society's Journal.It was Gilbert H. Grosvenor who "built the National Geographic Society into an extraordinarily successful institution. And he did so by emphasizing too things. One, he made pictures the language of the National Geographic magazine...And two, he stressed quality." The magazine editor wanted to see pictures and plenty of them.Within this book the reader will see pictures of the photographers at work with the latest cameras of the period, including the digital cameras they mostly use today.There is a 1909 photo of photographer O.D. Von Engeh during a Society Sponsored-expedition to Alaska. He is washing his freshly developed film negatives in the iceberg-choked seawater of the bay. On page 77, there is a wonderful 1910 hand colored black and white photo of a young, would-be rock star Japanese girl in traditional dress singing at the top of her lungs and playing a three-stringed samisen. The picture looks like it could have been taken yesterday as far as typifying a young musician's dream. Those images and the Autochrome (self-coloring) ones began appearing in National Geographic in July 1914. The era of color magazine photography had arrived.The paper that National Geographic is printed on is guaranteed to last for at least 200 years.How's that for quality printing?This is a fascinating book about how the National Geographic Society and its Journal and other publications came about. It's a fun read and illustrated history of history.While this joke isn't included in this book, in the 1950s and 1960s there was a joke about the photographers of LIFE Magazine and the National Geographic. The Geographic photographer would climb to the top of a pile of trash and garbage in order to take his beautiful color photos from the higher perch. The LIFE photographer would stand back and photograph the garbage.This book deals with the beautiful pictures and people of the planet, and it's only recently that Geographic has been photographing pollution and trash and even then the pictures are often beautiful.

I gave this as a gift to my Father on his 75th Birthday. He loves it and is enjoying the pictures and stories. Thank You National Geographic. My Father and Family have been a fan of this Magazine for many years. Thank You Amazon for giving me the opportunity to send it to my Father who is many miles away from where I live. It arrived in perfect timing for his Birthday.Regards,Margaret Tune