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  National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs (National Geographic) (Hardback) By (author) Annie Griffiths Belt

  Book rating: 02

  

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  Short Description for National Geographic Simply Beautiful PhotographsTakes the readers on a visual journey through the photographs to be found in National Geographic's Image Collection. This title features chapters which are organised around the aesthetic concepts that create beauty in a photograph such as: Light, Composition, Moment (Gesture and Emotion), Motion, Palette, and Wonder.
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  • Publisher: National Geographic Society
  • Published: 19 October 2010
  • Format: Hardback 504 pages
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  • Categories: Individual Photographers | Photographs: Collections | Photographic Reportage
  • ISBN 13: 9781426206450 ISBN 10: 1426206453
  • Sales rank: 6,936

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Reviews for National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs

• Simply (not) BeautifulBook rating: 2

  This heavy thick book was a disappointment on opening, and unfortunately my initial perception was not displaced on a more thorough examination.
  
  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this beholder sees page after page of poorly printed over-saturated and low-res images which, for the most part, did not "lift [me] out of this jaded world and gasp". Actually, not a single image made my gasp. For that I simply go to photographic websites like Redbubble and 500px.
  
  Images supporting a narrative in a magazine such as National Geographic do not automatically stand on their own. For example, a double page splash of an out-of-focus orange something shot with in-camera motion blur has not context, no meaning, and no impact.
  
  By and large, the presentation of the images in this behemoth of paper waste approximates the sledgehammer approach. Subtlety and thought are absent. The concept of framing and placement are absent.
  
  As a photographer I look for inspiration and ideas, and have truly gasped at opening other Book Depository purchases at similar prices, for example Nick Brandt's "A Shadow Falls". For just a few bucks more than this doorstop, you will see what I mean about what is a beautiful photograph and what is a beautiful photographic book. The difference is huge.
  
  Simply Boring Photographs is much more apt title. by Peter Hill

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