Articles tagged with 'national-geographic' — 6 found
Cities. And earth. And living rooms in Seoul.
“It starts with looking at growing cities in a positive way–not as diseases, but as concentrations of human energy to be organized and tapped.” This series of photos accompanies the article I mention here, on urban living and the future of the planet. They are photographs of families in Seoul, South Korea, in their identical [...]
January 13th, 2012Among reindeer
Nils Peder kneels among his reindeer This week I have finally been able to open my October and November issues of National Geographic and I was awestruck by the November story on the Sami people of northern Sweden. Their wardrobe and striking faces radiate against the harsh landscape of the region where they live–blanketed all [...]
November 22nd, 2011“Come see Tribes of Genuine Ubangi Savages: From Africa’s Darkest Depths!” and how National Geographic is like the circus
This Zulu couple, photographed on their wedding day, was published in November 1896 in National Geographic; it was the first time the magazine printed nudity, since its inception in 1888. The boobies in National Geographic have always bothered me. The magazine’s founding creed is based on “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge,” and has [...]
October 20th, 2010On travelogues, and the winding road to ending up where you intended
There was a time, several years ago, when I rarely left the travel essay section of a bookstore. I suspect it began around the time I starting subscribing to National Geographic, and I discovered the art of writing about travel. Reporting on what you ate every day or which monuments you visited is not of [...]
September 20th, 2010Steve McCurry’s Kodachrome career, and legacy
The famous Afghan Girl, taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry You may not recognize the name Steve McCurry, but I bet you have a vivid memory of this photo, and maybe a vague notion of the story behind it. McCurry has made a career out of photographing the world’s faces, many of which have [...]
July 28th, 2010A hybrid port city on the coast of China: Shanghai, good and bad
The financial district of Shanghai, view from the Bund on the other side of the river Rev. Young John Allen, the man I spent last semester studying, was a foreigner living in Shanghai in the second half of the nineteenth century. In his day, the city was the only port open to the outside, although [...]
March 12th, 2010