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On the 50th anniversary of the upheaval, we look at images that one brave photographer hid from the government.
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Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.
In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...
Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...
After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...
The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World photo contest offer a glimpse at some of the tiniest—and most ...
Travel enabled him to cast his gaze beyond Puritan Boston and imagine fresh possibilities. What advice might the peripatetic ...
Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ...
Like many of them, he draws from multiple cultures and traditions—Spanish and Quechua speaking, global and local, ancient and modern. And with his fellow artists, he’s creating something entirely new: ...