Odyssey : the art of photography at National Geographic /

Livingston, Jane.

Odyssey : the art of photography at National Geographic / Jane Livingston with Frances Fralin and Declan Haun. - Charlottesville, Va. : Thomasson-Grant, c1988. - 363 p. : ill. (some col.) 31 cm.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Shows the relations between photography and the National Geographic Magazine in bringing to the readers situations which may be "wrenchingly painful realities,gentle,unashamedly beautiful or understated in pictures wether " they technically innovative,stylistically rebellious,or depictive of the brutal or shocking . Presents pictures distinctively different in each period of history in relaying "the plain reality of the magazine's subject ,allowing the subject of an assignment to dictate the nature of the photographs.

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Documentary photography
Travel photography

R TR 790 .L762 1988