The exhibition “National Geographic Society – Celebrating 125 Years” is in Moscow at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography. The show features 125 images taken by National Geographic photographers and explorers over the society’s 125-year history. RIA Novosti hereby presents a collection of 10 of the images on display.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Volkmar Wentzel
August 16, 1960. US Air Force pilot Joseph William Kittinger made history as he ascended to 31,300 meters (102,800 feet) above New Mexico in a high-altitude balloon, The Excelsior, and jumped to earth, setting four world records.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/George Grall
1966. A turtle snaps up a bottom plodder in a Florida pond.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Robert Goodman
1963. Divers defend plastic bags of specimen fish from hungry predators at Shaab Rumi Reef, the Red Sea. Photograph by Robert Goodman.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/John Tee-Van
1934. American deep-sea divers Otis Barton and William Beebe, nicknamed “Columbuses of the Lower Depths” after a quarter-mile dive beneath the ocean in the Bathysphere submersible.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Michael Nichols
2002. A male gelada baboon bares his fangs. Simen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Chris Johns
1996. Newly circumcised boys from the Luvale tribe greet the dawn. Lukulu, Zambia.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Photographer unknown
This photo of a Zulu bride and bridegroom in the November 1896 issue was the first of a bare-breasted woman in National Geographic magazine.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Bradford Washburn
1935. A view of Canada’s Mount Saint Elias from the southeast ridge of Mount Logan, Alaska.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/Luther Jerstad
1963. Sitting on top of the world, National Geographic photographer Barry Bishop unfurls the flags of the United States and the National Geographic Society on Mount Everest.
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© Photo : National Geographic Russia/James Stanfield
1989. A woman clicks her heels in celebration of France's Bastille Day near the Louvre, Paris, France.
