Articles tagged with 'national-geographic' — 2 found


Steve 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, 2010

A 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