![]() ![]() Ranging from brush painting guides to elementary readers to the geography of Koshi Province-now the Hokuriku region-hundreds of digital scans reveal what students were learning in school more than 100 years ago. In the archive of Japan’s National Institute for Educational Policy Research, a trove of incredible textbooks spans the mid-1800s to the 1940s. Publishers relied on these methods until the early 1900s, when modern techniques like CYMK created multicolor impressions. Images courtesy of the National Institute for Educational Policy ResearchĬolor printing techniques have been used for centuries in Japan, from monochrome prints that were hand-colored to nishiki-e, or “brocade pictures,” in which a number of woodblocks forming separate parts of the image could be printed using different hues. The winning photos- which include an electrifying shot of fireflies from Sriram Murali and Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar’s devastating documentation of deforestation in Mexico-are on view through June 30 at the Natural History Museum in London. In its 59th year, the contest garnered nearly 50,000 entries from 95 countries. Titled “The golden horseshoe,” the photo peers in on a tri-spine horseshoe crab crawling over the mud with a trio of small golden trevallies trailing behind with the hope that the crab will rustle up some food as it moves. ![]() Laurent Ballesta, whose luminous underwater images we’ve featured previously, won the competition for the second time. All images © the artists, courtesy of the Natural History Museum, shared with permissionįrom the cliffs of the Zin Desert to the shallow waters of South Africa’s Kosi Bay, the 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest traverses the globe documenting the most striking moments of life on Earth. ![]()
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