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THE 60th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD
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Map Design of Richard Edes Harrison
With special reference to the work for Fortune Magazine 1935-1940
Hisayasu IharaKohei Harada
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The purpose of this study is to consider the work of Richard Edes Harrison, known as the most active cartographer during the Second World War in America. Although Harrison’s map has been studied mainly in the field of geography, cartography, and politics focussing on some political function of his azimuthal equidistant projection maps in the air-age, his map per se contains more unique design features comparable to advertising’s as a sort of “journalistic cartography”. In this article, while outlining his career as a designer and his main work for the Fortune magazine between 1935 and 1940, some characteristics in his work are examined from three aspects: scientific accuracy, artistic representational style, and narrativity.
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