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."..the vivid images showcase the grit and glory of the grind." --"People"
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National Geographic is pleased to present our new Collector's Series. Each 6" by 6 1/2" gem is a fresh presentation of one of our world-famous photography books. A beautiful gift and lovely to own, in a size you can easily carry and easily afford. Our first volume, "Work: The World in Photographs", showcases this most universal human pastime through images culled from National Geographic's vast photographic archive as well as other important collections. This fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work - in great cities and tiny villages; in 19th-century China and 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, and just about everywhere else we earn our keep.Here are cowboys and clowns, shepherds and shopkeepers, street musicians and artists' models all plying their assorted trades; on one page a professional quarterback fires off a pass as the crowd cheers him on, on the next a lone fisherman casts his net in the silent solitude of a Pacific lagoon, and on the next a nomadic tribesman erects a yurt on the Mongolian plain. Work is a subject that is both worldwide and personal. It is a shared endeavor at the very core of our identity.From the glamour of a Parisian fashion show to the grit of an African diamond mine, there are countless ways to make a living. The book illuminates scores of them - many in never-before-published photographs - offering revealing glimpses into various eras and cultures and engaging the reader with entertaining text and informative captions. With a wonderful mix of the utterly unexpected and the instantly familiar, this vivid panorama takes an essential human activity and shows us myriad ways in which work is at once universal and delightfully, unforgettably unique.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The photos in this collection are magnificent! However, I bought it stupidly thinking it was a bargin price for the large picture book that I remember see in the shops. However, this copy is much smaller which takes something away from its p[resence on my coffee table. Still a wonderful collection of work though!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If a picture can tell a story better than a thousand words here you have the ultimate and more fascinating treat about the different shapes that this human activity that we call work can take. A wonderful and wide-ranging collection of photographs from the incredible National Geographic's collection.
Here you will find the most comprehensive assemblage of images that portrait people at work in all kind of situations, places, geographic locations, and from different social, economic, political, and racial composition. You will travel in time from the 21st-to the 19th-century while being transported all over the world from one picture to the other.
Ferdinand Protzman bring us again a marvelous collection. A truly most have if you liked his previous work (also from National Geographic): "Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places" (2005) and "Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place" (2003).
Here you will find the most comprehensive assemblage of images that portrait people at work in all kind of situations, places, geographic locations, and from different social, economic, political, and racial composition. You will travel in time from the 21st-to the 19th-century while being transported all over the world from one picture to the other.
Ferdinand Protzman bring us again a marvelous collection. A truly most have if you liked his previous work (also from National Geographic): "Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places" (2005) and "Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place" (2003).
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The 190 evocative, wonderfully varied images collected from here span well over a century, from photography's early decades in the 19th century to the first years of a new millennium.
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The collection of photographs showcases people of different jobs going about with their daily chores.
I like how each photo transports me to the scene where the photographer stood. One moment, I'm beside people cycling to work in the rain, the next, I'm watching workers mine sulfur. And it goes on and on. Although I might never visit these places, the feeling of being there just by looking at the photos is satisfying enough.
This book is not just about the different occupations, it's about religion, culture and people's way of life.
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- A section from the book jacket
The collection of photographs showcases people of different jobs going about with their daily chores.
I like how each photo transports me to the scene where the photographer stood. One moment, I'm beside people cycling to work in the rain, the next, I'm watching workers mine sulfur. And it goes on and on. Although I might never visit these places, the feeling of being there just by looking at the photos is satisfying enough.
This book is not just about the different occupations, it's about religion, culture and people's way of life.
Check out other books I've reviewed by visiting my Amazon profile.
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