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Women cooking in Afghanistan
Men celebrating on horseback in Morocco
Mecca during hajj, Saudi Arabia
Veiled Bedouin woman in Saudi Arabia
Woman at island’s edge in Tahiti
Woman and coffee blossoms in El Salvador
Fishermen gathering nets in Maine
Gaucho on horseback in Argentina
Fire-walking ceremony in Fiji
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
Four girls in burkas in Iran
Miners in West Virginia
Elevated view of a court entrance in Madras
Soldiers at a tramway station near the U.S.
three Indian youths
Overflowing train in India
Scene in rear view mirror in Iraq
Men in Herat, Afghanistan
Buddha statue in Bamian, Afghanistan
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Woman With Birdcage, AfghanistanSpanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, the book Odysseys and Photographs follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie—a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era. See some of the book's most striking images in this gallery, and read what the photographers themselves had to say. "Denied face and form by age-old custom, a woman of Kabul secludes herself in a sleeveless silk chadri; a pair of Old World goldfinches rides home from the market on her head. Reflecting the forces of change at work in the land, Afghan law no longer requires the chadri, whose pleats echo a style of centuries ago."
—Thomas Abercrombie National Geographic magazine, September 1968
Photograph by Thomas Abercrombie

Odysseys and Photographs

See photos from the book Odysseys and Photographs, with pictures by Thomas Abercrombie, Luis Marden, Volkmar Wentzel, and Maynard Owen Williams, from National Geographic.

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