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Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy, 1994

"In Venice, Carnival is a vivid, theatrical event, [photographer] Sam Abell says. 'We wanted to show the actual lives of Venetians, not just the face of Carnival, so this image of festival goers was never used' " in the February 1995 National Geographic magazine article on Venice.

—From "100 Best Unpublished Pictures," January 2004, National Geographic magazine collector's edition

Photograph by Sam Abell