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Ira Block
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Ira Block (born 1949) is an American photographer. Since the mid-1970s, he has shot many stories for the National Geographic Magazine,[1] National Geographic Traveler, and also National Geographic Adventure. He has photographed diverse locations in Africa, the Australian outback, the Gobi Desert, Siberia, and the North Pole where he spent three months with the late Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura. Block's archive includes rare archaeological relics from ancient sites in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, as well as some of the only recorded images of the ritual dances of the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest.
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) Brooklyn, New York |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Occupation | Photographer |
Website | www |
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