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'Part a Who's Who handbook for the photographically astute, part documentary of everything ... The 352 pages zing with 500 photographs, many previously unpublished, from 140 leading photographers. A global family photo album, a memory book of personal stories that patchwork to form a rounded impression of humanity' - Wallpaper 'What makes the project so fascinating - and what gives it its depth and breadth - is the multiplicity of international voices, approaches, perspectives and motivations that feature' - Port 'The most ambitious stock-taking of our world since Edward Steichen's 'Family of Man' in the 1950s' - World of Interiors 'An admirable and ambitious undertaking ... a compelling collection of photographs' - Geographical magazine 'Through the work of top photographers, split into themed chapters (hive, flow, control), the editors have created a fascinating, amusing, disturbing picture of the world we have created' - The Times, Photography Books of the Year

Bracing, intelligent, and important. -- Photograph Magazine A captivating visual chronicle of contemporary life across the globe that features images by today's top photographers... Civilization presents a mosaic of moods, textures and techniques... Capturing the multiplicity of lived experience in an era of accelerated change, this provocative collection is a classic of its kind.-- BookPage

Bracing, intelligent, and important.

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Holly Roussell is a curator and art historian specializing in photography and contemporary art from Asia. William A. Ewing has been an author, lecturer, curator of photography and museum director for more than forty years. His many publications on photography include The Body, Landmark and Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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