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A Japanese geisha graces the front cover of Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs (National Geographic Books, October 2003).

Learn how 250 photos were selected from an archive of over ten million in a Q&A with Senior Book Editor Leah Bendavid-Val.
—Photograph by Jodi Cobb
 

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