Content of national geographic magazine

In the past few years, the opening articles of magazines have always covered a series of topics, such as environment, deforestation, chemical pollution, global warming, endangered species and so on, far exceeding the curiosity of geographical exploration. Some articles published in the magazine also pay attention to history and the application of new products and technologies in today's society, such as certain metals, genetic technology, food and agricultural products or new archaeological discoveries. Sometimes an entire magazine focuses on a country (its past civilization, natural resources or other topics). In recent decades, the National Geographic Society has also published other magazines focusing on other topics.

During the Cold War, the magazine tried to play a role beyond the iron curtain and provide readers with an objective and balanced perspective of national nature and humanity. Magazines are printed in different places, including Berlin, Austria, the Soviet Union and China. When it comes to the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, National Geographic mainly focuses on the scientific contributions at that time and avoids the expansion of nuclear arsenals related to the arms race. In addition to well-known articles on science and technology, history and introduction to inaccessible places in the world, the printing quality and picture standards of the magazine have also been recognized by the world, which has made the magazine a place where photographers all over the world dream of publishing their own photos. As early as the early 20th century, National Geographic began to use some rare color photos at that time, although this technology was still rare at that time. In 1930s, Luis Madden, a writer and photographer of National Geographic (born in 19 13, died in 2003), persuaded the magazine to allow photographers to use film for 35mm cameras instead of the large tripod cameras commonly used at that time. 1959, magazines began to publish photos on the cover, and soon National Geographic widely used digital photos in its magazines and official website. In the next few years, the magazine decided to keep the bright yellow border on the cover, and delete the oak leaf decoration and the text about introducing current issues to make room for publishing larger photos. Different from other magazines, National Geographic is often collected by readers for many years. Since 2006, National Geographic magazine has participated in an international photo competition involving more than 65,438+08 countries.

National Geographic is a highly academic scientific magazine. Starting from 1979, the magazine began to take geography as the breakthrough point, integrating news, ecology, environment, humanities and other factors to become a popular magazine. Since then, the magazine's photos are of high standard, and the words are easy to understand, and at the same time, they have literary characteristics. In order to pursue the quality of pictures and words, magazines have invested a lot of money. Anyone who has seen National Geographic knows that the photos published in it are by no means what you can see in general magazines. Photographers often need to go to environments that are difficult for ordinary people to reach and shoot in special ways. For example, a photographer in a magazine wants to shoot fierce beasts at close range or dive into the deep sea. On average, National Geographic shoots and writes 65,438+050 special reports every year. Because of this, contracted photographers all over the world travel more than 65,438+0 million miles, and each close-up needs hundreds of films. Each published picture is selected from thousands of candidate photos. As for shooting itself, it can even be compared with making movies. 1992, Christopher, the photographer of this magazine, transported photographic equipment with a value of 1 10,000 USD and a weight of 15 tons to Lake Baikal for deep-water shooting in Siberia, and used a total of 17 1 boxes, and finally only six photos were published. 1995, in order to shoot a story about dinosaurs, photographer Pioz and his assistant checked 42 boxes, and the freight alone was as high as 6 figures.

At the end of 20 15, National Geographic magazine published several of its best "beautiful pictures of the day" in 20 15, which was amazing, including the cracked ice lake, women taking photos with thousands of jellyfish underwater, penguins being curious about the camera and so on. See the figure below. As a supplement to the article, National Geographic sometimes provides maps that introduce areas. The map of the National Geographic Society has been adopted by the federal government of the United States to make up for the shortage of military map resources. Most of the maps in President franklin roosevelt's White House Map Room are national geographic maps. The National Geographic Map of Europe is kept in the Winston Churchill Museum in London. On the map, you can see Churchill's marks at the Yalta Conference, which was divided into postwar Europe by the allied and Soviet leaders.