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Page 6 ♦ Wednesday, March 24, 1999
N
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National Geographic
editor displays photos
BY SAMEH FAHMY
The Battalion
William L. Allen, editor-in-chief
of National Geographic, said in a
speech Tuesday the magazine has
been a trailblazer in photography
since its founding and is a show
case for the world’s greatest pho
tography.
Allen spoke to more than 550
people at the Presidential Confer
ence Center Auditorium to kick off
Student Research Week, which rec
ognizes students’ contributions to
research at Texas A&M.
Allen said National Geographic
photographers often face perilous
conditions — some have been
mauled by gorillas, bitten by
sharks, stabbed, beaten, shot at
and arrested.
“What keeps [photographers]
ticking are the precious few won
drous moments when everything
comes together and you capture
the perfect image,” he said. “It’s a
magical feeling that somehow
makes it all worthwhile.”
Allen said it is often that pho
tographers take 40,000 photographs
and only 20 of them are used.
Allen said National Geographic
has made significant contributions
to photography and was the first
magazine to be fully illustrated, to
use underwater color photographs
and to use underground photogra
phy.
Allen said one of the goals of the
National Geographic Society is to
educate, and he said it is working
to increase knowledge of geogra
phy. He cited results of a poll that
said one in three Americans could
not locate the Pacific Ocean on an
unmarked map of the world.
“We want to continue showing
people the world.” he said. “There
is no higher legacy than to leave the
generation with a better world than
we found it."
Allen’s speech was followed by
a presentation that highlighted
photographs that have appeared in
National Geographic.
A native of Tyler, Texas, Allen
joined the staff of National Geo
graphic in 1969 as a summer intern
and served at various editorial po
sitions before being promoted to
editor-in-chief in January 1995.
Allen said as a child he used to
wallpaper his room with maps
tie
tattalion
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swered questions from a.:
members and gave advice
dents.
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thing, the opportunities
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ter of taking advantageot:
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plifies the goals of exploreJv Justin Burn
discovery. clj;Bttention a:
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boundaries between the the wreath
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