Whilst researching the history of the
National Geographic magazine, I came upon a mention of ‘red shirt school of
photography’ and decided to look it up. This
feature first became popular in the 1950s and pioneered by the National
Geographic photographers as using strongly coloured clothing made their
pictures more effective in print. Photographers
used brightly coloured clothing to enhance drab or earth toned background to
focus attention on the subjects.
Nowadays it can mean that a photograph has
been set up and can be considered as lacking in originality. Interesting!
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