A beautiful collection of photos of motherhood throughout the world
With photographs and wise words on motherhood, Madonnas Around the World explores the universality of motherhood across different countries and cultures-featuring one photo of mothers with their children from each country on earth.
"During his seventy-five-year career, Dr. Edward S. Ross took thousands of photographs in the course of the many expeditions he undertook for the California Academy of Sciences, where he served over the years as Chair of Entomology, curator, and then emeritus curator. Ed's other love was people, particularly in remote areas around the world. He had a way of putting them at ease so that his photographs reflect daily life in a natural way. I have used his pictures in two of my books. Ed Ross's photographs capture human history and human diversity with exceptional richness and detail. I know Madonnas will be spectacularly beautiful and meaningful."
-Nina G. Jablonski, PhD, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity, Associate Director of the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
"During his career of seventy-five years at the California Academy of Sciences, Ed Ross engaged in a tireless worldwide continuing safari for insects, produced important scientific results, been an admirable and efficient curator for the Academy's world-class collections, and worked in many ways to reach the public and share his love of insects, of nature generally, and of tribal people throughout the world, with all of us. He documented, and photographed people that he encountered in the course of his travels and greatly admired their harmonious ways of existing in natural places. He took outstanding photographs throughout the course of these expeditions and used them to good advantage in popular articles, exhibitions, and other
means of educating the public about our wonderful world and the cornucopia of diversity that exists in it."
-Peter H. Raven, PhD, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
"This book gives a wonderful flavor of the superb photographs taken by Edward S. Ross in various parts of the world, a portion of which (from Africa) are now held and are available for research and teaching at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, as a result of a generous donation by Sandra M. Ross. The publication of these intimate portraits of mothers with their children is a timely reminder of what connects us as humanity in a political climate that has recently put such responses to our common plight under severe strain."
-Christopher Morton, PhD, Head of Research / Curator of Photograph Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK
"Dr. Edward S. Ross is an internationally acclaimed, highly respected scientist and photographer whose photos have graced the pages of National Geographic Magazine, and other popular journals, scientific papers, as well as children's magazines, study prints, and have appeared in educational films. Dr. Sandra Miller Ross, Field Associate at California Academy of Sciences, partnered with her husband on many scientific expeditions. With academic degrees in holistic health, she studied local indigenous medicine, and ministered to people often living remotely. She was expedition manager and directed photography."
-Thomas C. Emmel, PhD founder of the International Biodiversity Foundation
