National Geographic Stock Photography

National Geographic Stock Photography

If you want to travel to exotic and rarely visited places in the world, learn about cultures most people have never even heard about or take a step back into the history of the world and ancient civilizations without ever leaving your cozy seat by the fire then National Geographic can take you there. This award winning magazine has been around for 120 years, it's pages giving some rare and thoughtful insights into the world around us.

From King Tut's tomb, to the final resting place of the Titanic, to the race for space National Geographic has been there. The journalists for this magazine have traveled to the mountain tops in Tibet, to Oceans to study whales, to open air markets around the world, covering stories and given ordinary people an inside look at places we could have only imagined. They have done this with class and distinction and opened up a greater understanding and appreciation for cultures different than our own.

The magazine began as a society for academics and wealthy patrons in January of 1888. In October of that same year the society published its first magazine. It's first full time editor Gilbert Hovey Gosvenor, the son in law of Alexander Graham Bell (The societies second president) took up his position in 1899. He served as editor for 55 years until 1954. The magazine was originally published under the name of National Geographic magazine but has since been shortened to simply National Geographic.

National Geographic Stock Photography