This is a lovely book, the photo are fabulous and the little bit of information on some of the women are thought provoking , after all we are all pretty much alike under the skin and no matter where we live, but it takes a book like this to point it out to us. This would make a lovely book to dip into at leisure, as time will fly by, just looking the photos and the lives and places. Very good

Stunning pictures of woman from all over the world. Of all ages. Of all walks of life. Beauty is not just model faces. These pictures bring out the beauty in all women pictured, old, young, short, tall, skinny, and large. The simplicity of these photos really catch you and hold you tightly. Each photo has a small caption about the woman as well as where they are from',

This is a fantastic collection of beautiful photos of many different woman from all over the world. Along with stories of who they are or what they've been through this is truly wonderful collection.

I would like to see more stories if there was another collection like this that is my only critique.

I curious about this book because of Mihaela Noroc's instagram (https://www.instagram.com/the.atlas.of.beauty/). After reading this book, I really feel empowered as a woman. All women are beautiful, but media making women feel bad about their bodies and appearances. This book is very different! It makes me confident as a woman, without comparing with other women, because, everyone is different and unique.

Thank you so much Mihaela Noroc for this book. It really changed my life.

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Such a beautiful book celebrating the diversity of women around the world!

This collection seemed like the perfect blend between Strong Is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker and Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York. So the wait to get approved for this ARC was nearly excruciating with me checking my emails every day for a week. But I'm glad to say that it lived up to the hype I created in my mind.

Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity of beauty all around us. The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs celebrating women from all corners of the world, revealing that beauty is everywhere, and that it comes in many different sizes and colors. Noroc’s colorful and moving portraits feature women in their local communities, ranging from the Amazon rainforest to London city streets, and from markets in India to parks in Harlem, visually juxtaposing the varied physical and social worlds these women inhabit. Packaged as a gift-worthy, hardcover book, The Atlas of Beauty presents a fresh perspective on the global lives of women today.

I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for the women featured in here. They bring dignity, strength, and inner beauty that shines from page to page. From each of them I learned or was reminded of something, whether that be tolerance, kindness, resilience, natural and authentic beauty, serenity, strength, and generosity. Plus, the vibrant and colorful photographs really brought something new to the table.

However, as captivating as the images were, I feel like the words that accompanied them, save for a few, failed to move me. In comparison to the collections I mentioned at the start of my review, it was difficult to ignore how bland the text is. I wanted to see what lies beneath the surface, to feel like we’re getting to know the person in front of us... But again, save for a few, I rarely encountered it in this collection. Also: I'm low-key sad that the utterly powerful cover picture wasn't included in here.

On a brighter note, I'd love to next share the photographs of the enthralling women that captivated me in my full review:
Blog; https://bookspoils.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/review-the-atlas-of-beauty-by-mihaela-noroc/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2008287777

An illustrated tour around the world through the eyes of a woman, about women of so many countries and cultures, young and old, but with the comune denominator of beauty. Far from the photoshopped, artificial beauty of fashion magazines, it is not about seductiveness, but the real, inner beauty that comes from the heart. All these women are unique with their faces and bodies, they do not try to look like top models, yet they are so lovely in simple or gorgeus clothes, they'll surely conquer the reader. Their stories are told in few words, some of them are very hard, suffered or even heroic, but there is a positive radiance in their eyes. This book is a message about love, hope, tollerance, integration and peace, told by the beautiful faces of women. Being a portrait painter, so fascinated by faces, I've enjoyed very much the book.

Wonderful, diverse collection of portraits of women around the world. A range of ages, ethnicities, religions, occupations, and backgrounds are represented. Several photos are accompanied by names and stories, allowing readers to connect with the subjects.

This is a really beautiful photography book that I can see making a great coffee table type of book for photography lovers or just people who admire the female body and how every women is beautiful in their own ways! This book has gorgeous photos of women from all over the world young and older and the photos are absolutely breath taking! I definitely had a few favorites. Not only does it have photos though in many cases there is info about the person in the photo or just a brief sentence about it aside from the location. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a unique book of photography but also a book with stories upon stories behind it.

This was so lovely. It's really nice hearing stories from women all across the world. I would have liked the text to be a bit longer - some pictures didn't have any information about the woman, and I found I wanted to know more about them, Humans of New York style! - but it's a really lovely diverse collection.

Pasolini’s ‘The Gospel According to St Matthew’ (1964) is remarkable in many ways, most obviously in its casting of ordinary-looking people. It takes a cinematic experience like that provided by Pasolini to make one realise just how much the visual media, and particularly film and photography, is dominated by the conventionally beautiful. Consider, too, the way in which advertising and fashion presents an image, particularly of women, which seems calculated to make most of us feel inadequate.

‘The Atlas of Beauty’ is intended, and mostly works, as a corrective to this state of affairs, comprising a collection of 500 portraits of women from around the world by Mihaela Noroc. It represents the fruits of a social media project which has seen the backpacking Romanian photographer take pictures of women in more than 50 countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Brazil and from Ethiopia to Central Mongolia.

Noroc’s book celebrates diversity not only by ranging widely geographically but by depicting women of all sorts and variously occupied: the young, the middle aged and old; mothers-to-be, mothers and grandmothers; blondes, brunettes and redheads; working, shopping, dancing; and most other variations you can imagine. All are photographed in natural light and in natural, or at least naturalistic, poses.

Most pages present one woman or sometimes offer two portraits. It is a tribute to the high quality of the images that one feels rather cheated by the ten pages in the book in each of which sixteen passport-size pictures are assembled, as one feels that each individual image is really deserving of its own page.

Noroc’s commendable aim is to spread the message that inner beauty trumps the skin-deep kind. Thus for her beauty is about being yourself - natural and authentic – and her portraits certainly reveal women seemingly comfortable in themselves and thus able to meet her lens with a steadfast gaze.

Noroc is clearly a very accomplished photographer but that raises a paradox: are her subjects naturally photogenic or have her skills rather made them seem so? Either way her book, like each of her women, is beautiful.