National Geographic:

Today photography has become a global cacophony of freeze-frames. Millions of pictures are uploaded every minute. Correspondingly, everyone is a subject, and knows it—any day now we will be adding the unguarded moment to the endangered species list. It’s on this hyper-egalitarian, quasi-Orwellian, all-too-camera-ready “terra infirma” that National Geographic’s photographers continue to stand out.

To my mind, no contemporary magazine has brought us more powerful images so consistently for so long. This 125th anniversary issue is one that should be bought in hard cover and kept as a family heirloom.