Odyssey -The best photos from National Geographic-

Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic
Jane Livingston

The National Geographic is a journal that has been published since 1888, celebrating science, geography, history, and world culture. The book highlights the importance of photography’s function within journalism and globalisation, and how photographer’s working for the magazine were under the title ‘illustrations editors’ as a pose to photographers; this was fundamental for the readers of the magazine and for the photography movement as a whole.
The book describes the relationship between documentary photography and the artistic establishment as characterised by mistrust and attraction. Art as a medium to refine meaning and to say as much as possible without words, documentary photography explores instances with this meaning is present within our visual culture without construction.

The colour printing technique used by the National Geographic to achieve such vibrancy is called autochrome process, a process that uses potato starch onto paper. Using a glass plate with a thin wash of tiny potato starch grains dyed red, green, and blue, thus creating a filter, and adding a thin layer of emulsion was added over that. When the plate is flipped and exposed to light, the resulting image is developed into a transparency. I am interested in seeing is there are any companies that still use this technique to get my own prints developed.

363 pagina's. Boek in uitstekende staat. Linnen band met stofomslag.
Afm.: 31 x 25,5 cm
ISBN 3 8228 9311 0
Taschen 1994

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