Women: The National Geographic Image Collection

This book is fabulous! The articles, written review are nice The photos are exciting and these women are dynamic. They all make proud.

National Geographic never disappoints.

Purchased this as a gift for an incredible woman and the book arrived damaged. The first 14 PAGES fell out of the binding. I felt horrible. I can not return the book as I had already personalized it. Not the quality I expected from a National Geographic publication.

Beautiful, large book. Worth the money

Lots of women are seeing this book!

Lovely book. A gift for my best friend.

liked the pictures

Choosing photos for project.

I love it! When I get “me” time, I sit and enjoy the photography, which is impeccable, and then the event.

Fantastic , beautifully designed book.

This book is fabulous! The articles, written review are nice The photos are exciting and these women are dynamic. They all make proud.

National Geographic never disappoints.

Purchased this as a gift for an incredible woman and the book arrived damaged. The first 14 PAGES fell out of the binding. I felt horrible. I can not return the book as I had already personalized it. Not the quality I expected from a National Geographic publication.

Beautiful, large book. Worth the money

Lots of women are seeing this book!

Lovely book. A gift for my best friend.

liked the pictures

Choosing photos for project.

I love it! When I get “me” time, I sit and enjoy the photography, which is impeccable, and then the event.

Fantastic , beautifully designed book.

Love, love , love it. Such intriguing photos. For any photography buff or just to celebrate women. This is a great gift. I bought it right after my mom passed away as a gift to myself to remember her and all the great women out there who are heroines in their own lives.

Incredible photography. Culturally diverse.

It was a great Christmas gift.

I thought this book would be a regular size but it is large and heavy book with full page color pictures of women from all walks of life all over the world, a good learning tool for whatever the age.

This book is wonderful. Lots and lots of beautiful pictures of women important in the last 100 years. Plus comments from women now like Oprah, Jane Goodall, you name it. Fascinating and lovely to have.

Éste es un libro que TODO EL MUNDO debería tener para leer y hojear a gusto en repetidas ocasiones! Es increíblemente profundo, artístico e interesante.

The photographs in this book are so utterly awesome. The photos tell a story and you can get just a whisper of what it is like to be in the other persons shoes. The photos also show a history of real women and how times have changed. I'm going to buy this book for my mom & stepmom. It book is really awesome and thought-provoking.

It was a gift for my very independent daughter. The photos are wonderful. It is a perfect coffee table book, in that just about anyone would enjoy glancing at the images and brief history behind them.

I haven't read it all, but reaLLY good photos, & a BIG variety of women from all walks of life

Beautiful collection of inspiring women. I gave this as a gift to my best friends for Christmas and they loved it. It’s a one of a kind gift that the special women in your life will cherish.

I got this book to read but also later realized it’s a great piece for coffee table!

I love this book. I'd buy it again.

This was a Christmas gift for an amazing woman herself and she has been enjoying it very much.

This coffee table book of diverse and iconic photos will be a classic.

I love love love the book

What a wonderful book recommendation from Meghan Markle. I'm so glad I purchased this beautiful book.

Beautiful addition to any coffee table book collection

Love it! So empowering!!

Gift to daughter in law she loved if

Extremely well done with beautiful pictures.

Beautiful portraits...Awesome !

Great book

Spectacular NatGeo photography. One of the most engaging coffee table books ever. My wife loved it.

I bought this book as gift to my wife and she was thoroughly pleased!

Bought this one to give it as a present. Images were powerful and beautiful!

Today I’m thrilled to feature this beautiful National Geographic book, Women! You guys it’s gorgeous. The pictures inside are of women from all over the world. There are so many smiles in this book it will bring one to your face. If you are looking for presents for the holidays, I would highly recommend this one for that young women in your life that is eager to get her adventurous life started or that women that wants to reflect on a life well lived! The publisher describes this one as a “powerful photography collection, drawn from the celebrated National Geographic archive, reveals the lives of women from around the globe, accompanied by revelatory new interviews and portraits of contemporary trailblazers including Oprah Winfrey, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour.” Thanks to @tlcbooktour for this copy!

This is a fabulous book of photography that features women. It’s a good old fashioned coffee table book – oversized and heavy. This is a book that needs to be perused with a glass of red wine at your fingertips. I found myself pouring over the wonderful images every night for almost a week. It’s certainly too much (at least for me) to do all at once. This book is truly a photo essay – I don’t know what the image to word ratio is but the pictures win by a landslide. There’s women both famous and unknown. Women who live now and those who inhabited the past. Women from my state but most from around the globe. There’s fashion mavens and women in rags. Rich/poor, contemporary/old-fashioned. They are all beautiful in their own way. Joy, Beauty, Love, Wisdom, Strength, Hope: These are the themes features and shown through the lens of female humans. This book surpasses any others of its kind. It’s presented in the unique way for which the National Geographic is renowned.

I may not collect National Geo issues, but I doubt that many would argue that their photographers are among the best in the world. They're excellent for a reason and they photograph a large variety of persons, topics, and landmarks. That's why they're able to have coffee table art books that focus on a specific topic, such as women. This is legitimately something I can see myself flipping through at random for years to come, even if it's just to look at images I've already looked at many times before. The printing here is nice and the hardback is nice and weighty - it would look fantastic on a bookshelf or coffee table, plus it would make for a nice Christmas present. These aren't just women from a specific country or walk of life - no, there are all types of women, which can lead to some great conversation starters or just some great personal musings. And yes, they have the iconic photograph of the young girl with those startling eyes!

Beautiful book! I love reflecting on the historical changes and progress made. The photos are powerful and lovely. It's empowering, but also sad. We have so much more progress to make. I enjoyed sharing this with my nieces. Great conversations about where we've been, where we are and where we are going as a global society. Also love discussing the various cultures represented and modern technology and political movements. Wonderful educational tool.

National Geographic continues its wonderful collection of gorgeous coffee table books this season with the stunning Women- the National Geographic Image Collection. The book is divided into six chapters- Joy, Beauty, Love, Wisdom, Strength and Hope. Each section contains full page photos of women from all over the world, of all ages and cultures. The placement of the photos is thoughtful, like the photo of a glorious smiling Dolly Parton holding a banjo (taken by Jodi Cobb in 1978) facing a photo of a Japanese woman singing and playing a samisen stringed instrument (taken by Eliza R. Scidmore in 1912). The comparison and contrast of an Australian Aborginal woman with a tradtional cermonial painted face (taken by Amy Toensing in 2012) with an Italian actress, her face veiled, taken backstage in 1994 by William Albert Allard) is amazing. The joy of three women sharing a conversation inside a rickshaw in Bangalore, India (taken by William Albert Allard in 2004), school girl friends smoking cigarettes on a cruise down the Seine in Paris (taken by David Alan Harvey in 1989), and a group of women in London in 1966 holding up their compact mirrors to get a peek at Queen Elizabeth (photo by James P. Blair) highlight women in their everyday life. There are photos of famous women- Amelia Earhart after she landed in Northern Island, surrounded by well-wishers, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her spacesuit, journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells- as well as interviews with such powerful women as Christiane Amanpour, Nancy Pelosi, Laura Bush and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, talking about their successes, failures, and whom they admire. One of National Geographic's most famous photos- "Afghan Girl", taken in a refugee camp in 1984 by Steve McCurry, highlighting Sharbat Gula's piercing green-eyed gaze is here, paired with a photo of Gula taken in 2002 by McCurry. Her eyes are still as piercing, and the effect of the photos side-by-side is dramatic. Women- the National Geographic Image Collection is a brilliant look at women around the world, across the ages, in photos taken by the most creative photographers. It's a book to savor, and each time you open it up, you see something new that captures your attention. It would make a fantastic holiday gift for anyone's collection.

This book is a celebration of women around the world, past and present. It's a beautiful book, but it's also heartbreaking at times. Some of the stories made me cry for the woman/women facing such hardships and trials, but others made me smile. It's mostly about the pictures, and they take up most of the pages, but there are plenty of words, too. There are some interviews and all the pictures have at least a sentence or two to describe what is going on within it. I was surprised at the size of this book when it arrived. It's a large, heavy book. That's not a complaint, though. I've quite enjoyed looking through the pictures and it's turned into one of my new favorite books.

This is definitely a coffee table or display book! Gorgeous photographs. We are gifting it to my mother-in-law. My husband's parents had National Geographic subscriptions for decades--going back to the 60's. So she will really appreciate this book! It's great for feminists, young and old, or historians, or anthropologists or just enthusiasts of world culture. It's a supremely heavy book, so realize that. It's not JUST photographs, it's got a fair amount of text to go with them. It's equal parts scholarly and pretty photography. Not a piece of fluff for sure, but not super deep reading either. Great display piece or conversation piece.

The over 500-page National Geographic “Women” is a beautiful eye-catching coffee table book that is profoundly educational. It shows viewers hundreds of colorful photographs of women in all classes of society involved in many activities during the past 130 years in over 50 countries. The women are rich and poor, in cities and villages, in homes and government. They express all kinds of emotions, joy and sadness, hope and despair, work and accomplishments. Many of the women show courage, the use of their intellect, and their successes. Among the photos is the first where women are the primary subject in 1896 and the first taken by a woman in 1914. In addition to the many pictures that prompt us to think, these scenes are followed by the views of two dozen highly-placed women alive today on various issues, ideas expressed in inspiring ways. By viewing the pictures and reading the views we come to understand that women’s terrible fate, including their unequal role in and out of family life goes back millennia and is only beginning to change. The famous Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was one of the world’s greatest thinkers, yet he belittled women. How could he with such intellect have made such a mistake? Scholars explain that he relied on what he saw; in his time, women were mistreated and given no significant role in society. He saw no female accomplishments. This book shows what Aristotle was unable to see.

Every so often, we all need a gorgeous coffee-table book to inspire us. And certainly, when Amazon Vine offered me this one, I responded, "You had me at 'National Geographic.'" But this collection of photographs, nominally celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the 19th amendment, is SO much more than pretty pictures! Oh sure -- the photographs are amazing. They are organized in chapters: joy, beauty, love, wisdom, strength, hope. Most are relatively recent, but a few are absolutely historical, such as a picture of Amelia Earhardt, or a 1911 photo of women workers rolling cigarettes in Mexico City, or the woman from the famous 1984 photo, "Afghan Girl" in both the original picture and a photo of her in 2002, 18 years later. (One frustration: There's no useful index to help me find any given photograph.) But what tips this book of photography from "Oh, that's cool!" to WOW is the words. First, there are several sections labeled "Through the lens," in which photographers present the image as well as their own story of the moment or what it means to them. For instance, photographer Ami Vitale writes about her picture of a female elephant keeper in Africa, explaining its background and adding, "After covering conflicts for almost a decade, I realized I can bring that same sensibility into my images -- whether they be of people, cultures, wildlife, or nature." The reader is reminded of the photographer, not just the subject. It's lovely. However, you could ignore all the photographs and just read the two dozen in-depth interviews in this book. The same questions are asked of several amazing women, from marine biologist Sylvia Earle to journalist Christiane Amanpour to Oprah Winfrey to Laura Bush to young activist Emma Gonzalez: "What is the most important challenge facing women today?" and "What advice would you give to young women?" and "What living person do you most admire?" Even if the questions are arguably predictable, I learned something from every woman's answers. I felt uplifted, thoughtful, and hopeful that women are getting more power, and we are helping to make this a better world. Outstanding book. Get it. Even if you have to buy a coffee table first.

This is a big and nice coffee table book. It is really quite big. There are also parts of the book to read, which I feel like people don't really do when it is a coffee table book - it would have been preferable to me to have images only, as it is really too big to comfortably read actual full pages of text. Nonetheless, I think it is a nice coffee table book and/or a nice gift. Overall pleased.

National Geographic’s book “Women: The National Geographic Image Collection” is a collection of photos celebrating not just famous women but women everywhere. It does contain some iconic portraits such as the photo of the young woman in war torn Afghanistan, an image that has been engraved in our minds for generations, but it also contains women living their daily lives. It is a rich mix of cultures and women’s roles in those cultures. It shows women who prepare food for their families as stay at home moms as well as women who have achieved milestones in the advancement of not only women, but particular fields. Overall, this book is a celebration of women and would be a welcome coffee table book in any home. The book is well made of high-quality materials and has the semi-gloss pages that are so nice and thick. The images are clear and crisp.

This huge, full-cover book is a tribute to powerful and inspiring women the world over and I gasped and ooohed and aaaahed as I read it. The photographs are gorgeous, in typical NatGeo style and this is the PERFECT gift for any woman in your life that you respect and love, including yourself.

This volume contains hundreds of images, some of famous women, most of anonymous women from cultures of diverse cultures. Each can prompt a conversation, each can prompt writing, and each engages curiosity and thought. The book is large in format, and most images are in color. Inclusive in content, it also contains interviews of famous and influential women. Recommended.

Absolutely stunning collection of pictures that manage to be both exquisite and important in equal measure, combined with text that stimulates as much as it explains I would say it's unique, only it is quite like any number of NatGeo publications in its scope and its effect

Got this book and was actually super duper surprised at just how amazingly thick this book is... id guesstimate its maybe 2 inches thick!?! Open it up and the pages feel like they were printed and finished on a very nice format. Pages are easy to turn... and contain many many manyyyy photos... we are putting this out as a coffee table book area off to the side. A photographer friend and his girlfriend came over and noted how much they loved it too. The only reason i took 1 star off is because i just feel they could have enhanced or done something more to the photos... yes, i know some are quite old but i just wanted to have that kick up a notch for these. Granted, that may also destroy the originality feel of the books photos. But all in all we love it.

I've decided that anytime a friend of mine has a child and that child is female, I will buy this book for her. I could happily sit for hours looking at these beautiful and POWERFUL images. In this current world where there are so many bad feelings and when the idea of being female is such a loaded issue, it is nice to let images speak more eloquently and precisely than any interview or op ed could. Sure, there are interviews in this book with amazing women. But honestly? They could have been omitted and I would have been just as impressed and felt so empowered. Even women who historically I might have felt sorry for (e.g. a photo of two women in a harem playing cards) are portrayed in a fashion in which their dignity and strength is absolutely unmistakable. Some of these women -or the photos that capture them- are famous, but so many are women like myself, just going about the business of life - loving their children, earning a living, being human. Those are undoubtedly my favorites.

This is a beautiful, hardback book filled with awesome images of women from around the world. This would make a great conversation starter when left out on the coffee table during a gathering. Women: The National Geographic Image Collection would make an unforgettable gift for any woman on your Christmas list.

This over-sized, hardcover, photo-rich book is a phenomenal choice for a coffee table book. You and your family can move through this page by page (maybe a few pages a day) or even randomly. Every entry here is fascinating ... mostly, the pictures speak for themselves, but there is occasional text in the form of interviews, captions, and blurbs. This book takes a global approach. In this sense, it is a lovely choice for those with tweens and teens. It has the ability to open discussion not only about art about about culture. Whether you are buying this for your local library, your waiting room, or your own home, this is a truly visually stunning book at an amazing price. A great gift for tween and teen girls as well as anyone with an interest in women's studies. Highly recommended!

this is what national geographic does, publishes photos taken of sights around the world. the theme here is women, women from around the globe of all walks of life. the editors and contributors are women. the photographs were taken over decades, many from archives from earlier years were shot by men. interspersed among the photos and as an end piece are interviews with women who have drawn media attention, the majority of them social activists and scientists. a conversation starter, an excellent coffee book.

I thought this would be a great book for demonstrating how women have arrived at today -- their moment in history -- but I don't get that sense at all. The majority of the photos are posed and recent, and have no historical import that I can discern. In the introduction, there is one photo from the March 3, 1913 suffrage march in Washington, DC. Now those are the kind of photos I wanted more of! Women fighting for their rights, for their voices to be heard. I have nothing against all these photos of smiling, happy women, but there's no context for it. There's one photo of women in a Mexican sweatshop, but by placing it in that country, the viewer can entirely ignore that those conditions pertain in the U.S., too. The interviews with famous (and near famous) women don't really add what I want, which is visual history. In addition, many of the photos are dark or shot in red light, which makes them uninteresting to me. I can't think of anyone I would recommend this book to. It's more travelogue than anything of historical importance.

National Geographic's new release, WOMEN, assembles a collection of photographs of women organized under the themes of joy, beauty, love, wisdom, strength, and hope. The photos themselves communicate far more than their captions. But the two sections called Portraits of Power that include a photo and an interview with a total of 16 different women, engage the reader most fully. Gift this to the woman in your life. This jewel among books inspires me to keep pursuing some goals that I have, because of the women pictured in these pages. Highly recommended.

This is an enormous book, weighs about 6-7#. The photography is of course amazing. The scope is all over the place, from celebrities to historical features to dead people. As I read this, I thought it might have made a better series than a single book. I found it hard to go from Earhart to page after page of women in burqas. There is a lot of oppression chatted up as a pretty picture. Seeing polygamist girls play in a river doesn't make it less sad. A really mixed review from me. I walked away a lot more depressed than I think the book anticipated.

I really wanted to enjoy this book, because I feel that the world is going backwards in regards to women's rights and wanted this to provide motivation, but is this the best you could do, National Geographic? The photo selection is terrible, and the interview subjects are the typical figures that we've all read about and have had enough coverage in the media. I mean seriously Oprah? Melinda Gates? Laura Bush?? It would have been far more interesting to read interviews from women photographers and/or the individuals in the photos themselves. Overall, I am deeply disappointed and National Geographic needs to become more diverse.

The photos are stunning, more stunning than I expected. It's a lovely coffee table book. It's also a wonderful educational tool by encouraging the "readers" to look up the featured women who all have their own stories, cultures and experiences. Highly recommended for all human beings, i.e. not just for women.

The images are powerful and evocative. The image quality is superb. The is an image on EVERY single page and the size for the images are full-page verso/recto or span BOTH the verso and recto of the book. Splendid! This book is quite large and has a very sturdy hard cover. Perfect as coffee table book or for displaying on your book shelf. Highly recommended!

This book is HUGE! There are MANY pages of beautiful women from all different cultures. The photos come with detailed stories and the origin of the women pictured...the book is beautiful. If you find yourself bored, change the page to find a more interesting story... I promise, it's one in there.

The photography for "Women: The National Geographic Image Collection" is great. The range of images and time periods makes for contrast and connection. I wasn't as keen on some of the women who were profiled so that was a bit of a down, but it is still an amazing collection.

This is a true coffee table book: It's large and heavy and has a selection of beautiful photos and interviews with powerful women including Oprah and Jane Goodall. I really love this book and am happy to have this in my collection. However, it does take up a lot of space.

The book is beautiful. It came with part of the box missing. It is a miracle that the book didn’t fall out. Five stars on the book. Zero stars on the packaging.

LOVE this book. Very nicely made and super fun to flip through. Great coffee table book as well.

I loved this book and I purchased it to give to my 3 grandchildren. They found the pictures to be beautiful and interesting and I found them to be provocative as they often provoked very important conversations with my grandchildren.

Exceptional quality photography and reproduction. I bought one for both my daughters and their daughters.

I loved the fact that I could give this book to my teenage granddaughter who is studying at McGill.

This is an unexpectedly large and heavy book, jam packed with wonderful high-quality photographs and interesting stories. I would recommend. Bought as a mothers day gift, it went down very well.

I did not expect such a politically partisan book from National Geographic. Nancy Pelosi?? The photos are not so great either. In my opinion, this was a big waste of money. There are much better alternatives out there. A shame.

what a great book this is, BUT its soooo badly damaged i cant believe it, what a wreck of a book it is now, JUST BECAUSE YOU COULDNT BE ARSED TO PACK IT PROPERLY FFS THIS WAS A PRESENT FOR SOMEONE, IF YOU DONT WANT TO DO A JOB, GIVE IT TO SOMEONE THAT CAN

This book is so transformative....There is no single photo in this book that i could put in a column "i like it less" or "i don't like it".....Eve photo has in my eyes such a story and for every person who buys this book i can only say that i can only imagine that the same photo will probably have different story but the message is the same - WOMEN! POWERFUL! Thank you

Love this! Such a heavy volume of wonderful images. Have loved having this in our home. Beautifully presented and well worth the cost.

Lovely book. But why package such a large heavy item in one layer of cardboard so that it gets bashed around and damaged on delivery?

Was really excited when I ordered this and one was for myself and the other was present but one arrived damaged and dirty.

Wife delighted with the book

I have three daughters 25-31. Strong, intelligent women. Can’t think of a better Christmas gift for each of them. Illustrated in a manner commensurate with what you would expect from NG. Highly recommended for those of us fortunate enough to have daughters!!

Das Buch ist toll!! Die Ware war aber bei der ersten Lieferung beschädigt und bei der zweiten sehr eingedellt und wirkte abgenutzt.

Je ne connaissais pas toutes ces femmes.

Excelente livro

Un intéressant livre avec beaucoup d`excellentes photos mais dommage car " Portraits of powers ( entrevues ) " nous prive d`une centaine d`intéressantes et captivantes photos sur la condition féminine.

The book is really nice and much bigger and heavier than I thought it would be. Ordered as Christmas gift for my mom and she loved it. Only issue was the cover was bent in the box it came in from Amazon but I was able to use the weight of the book to fix it.

GOOD