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The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years
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The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years

Photos
10
Status
Public
Created
Oct 11, 2013
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Nature Photojournalism

Photos (10)

Instead of cars carrying workers, Nepal has workers carrying cars on the trail from Katmandu. Automobiles are shoulder-borne to and from the capital and only Nepalese city with modern roads. This old German-made Mercedes is going to India as a trade-in on a shiny American model. Nepal, 1948 © Volkmar K. Wentzel, National Geographic
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After years of drought and depopulation, many parts of the Great Plains meet the historic definition of frontier territory: an area with no more than six people per square mile. Nebraska, 2004 © Jim Richardson, National Geographic
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A 1940 photo of the Great Sphinx and pyramids of Giza suggests two long-gone worlds: ancient Egypt and a Bedouin society not yet overtaken by the tidal wave of modernization. Giza, Egypt, 1940 © Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
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A southern elephant seal barks loudly as it breaks the water’s surface. The largest of all seals at up to 8,800 pounds, it gets its name from having a truck-like snout. Point Henry, Victoria, Australia, 2004 © Jason Edwards, National Geographic
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An Eskimo man models a space age-looking parka fashioned of walrus intestine, which is impermeable to water. Nome, Alaska, 1900 © Carl L. Lomen, National Geographic
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Miners eat lunch from a communal bowl in the mining town of Pluto. They work here to extract rock and sand from a large pit that has taken over a year to excavate. Pluto, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2013 © Marcus Bleasdale, National Geographic
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A chimp clasps hands with zoologist Jane Goodall, 1965 © Hugo van Lawick, National Geographic
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Views of small limestone hills punctuating privately owned fields of rape plants in flower. The rape seed is harvested for cooking oil, the rape stalks are turned into housing insulation, and honey is produced from the flowers by hives of bees brought in by migratory beekeepers. Luoping, China, 2007 © George Steinmetz, National Geographic
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A green garland crowns Chicago’s City Hall, softening the hard edges of a town famous for steel and stone—and helping to keep the building cool in summer. Illinois, 2009 © Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic
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Pilgrims circle the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Making this time exposure from the roof of his nearby hotel, Abercrombie watched the faithful, dressed anonymously in white, circle the Kaaba “in harmony with the planets and the atoms,” he wrote. Saudi Arabia, 1965 © Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic
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