摘要:Key Words: Story photographic, Biography, Nelson Mandela ABSTRACT : In this research, the writer conducted a book report entitled A photography story of a life: Biography Nelson Mandela, written by Laaren Brown and Leny Hort in 2006. The reason why the writer chose this book because Nelson Mandela was a famous person. He had been sent for 27 years in prison because he struggled in abolition of apartheid. He had a hard struggle to bring peace to a nation. He became the first black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. In this research, the writer described the whole contents of the book included the story, the title, information of the authors, place and year of published, summary of the book and the comments of the book. This book is recommended because this book brings together the usual brilliant photography with historians approach to biography subject. Through biography, we can get information of our curiosity about well-known people, and their life experience can be inspiration or spirit for our living.