W. Robert Moore

Portrait of W. Robert   Moore

William Robert Moore (15 Aug 1899, Butler, Michigan ‑22 March 1968, Washington, DC, USA) was a photographer and the chief of the foreign editorial staff at National Geographic during four decades. 

With a predilection for Asia, where he started to work in the early 1930s, he contributed to nearly 90 magazine articles in the famed publication, as a photographer or a writer. In 1960 (April, no. 117, vol. 4), he authored a feature article on Angkor, Angkor, Jewel of the Jungle, completed with original paintings by artist Maurice Fievet. Moore retired in 1967.

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Royal Ballet dancers in Angkor, 1934, by W. Robert Moore

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Kwangtung (Hong Kong) in 1932, by W. Robert Moore