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Work, September 2006
Hardcover
The World in Photographs
National Geographic
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0792262042
EAN: 9780792262046
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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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