Under the black clouds of burning
oil fields during the Gulf War, camels forage desperately for
shrubs and water in southern Kuwait, 1991. Front-line photographs
of regions ravaged by human strife can also illuminate war's
environmental cost.
Jou Jou, captive chimpanzee
reaches out it's hand to Dr. Jane Goodall in Brazzaville Zoo,
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1990.
A lion climbs a tree to sleep, in
Uganda's Queen Elizabeth Park, 2011
Steve McCurry's iconic photograph
of a young Afghan girl in a Pakistan refugee camp appeared on the
cover of National Geographic magazine's June 1985 issue and became
the most famous cover image in the magazine's history.
A cowgirl dropped a nickel in a
parking meter to hitch her pony. When this photo was taken in 1939,
El Paso, Texas, was still a highly horse-conscious town with many
cattle-ranch residents.
Noor Nisa, about 18, was
pregnant, and her water had just broken. Her husband was determined
to get her to the hospital, but his car broke down, and he went to
find another vehicle. The photographer ended up taking Noor Nisa,
her mother and her husband to the hospital, where she gave birth to
a baby girl, in Afghanistan, 2010
“I expected this leopard seal to
flee with her catch, a live penguin chick, but she dropped it on my
camera,” says Paul Nicklen, who shot this photo in Antarctica,
2005. Since these aggressive mammals eat whatever they find in the
variable ice pack, scientists track their diets to gauge changes
caused by global warming.
Floating on dreams and whispers,
girls from a West Bank village cool off in the salt-laden waters of
the Dead Sea. With its main tributary, the Jordan, at less than a
tenth of its former volume, the inland sea has dropped some 70 feet
since 1978. Shot in the West Bank, Palestine, in 2009
The October 2013 issue of The
National Geographic Magazine brings together some of the best and
most memorable images in the publication's history
A boy juggler, Kashing, Chekiang
Province, China, circa 1929. This and the following images can be
seen at the Beetles and Huxley gallery, London. (L W Chamberlain/
National Geographic Magazine/ Beetles and Huxley)
Young Asaro mudmen at the annual
tribal sing-sing at Garoka, Melansia, 2000
Kumbh Mela Festival, Allahabad,
United Provinces, India, 1948.
