Richard edes harrison biography

  • Richard Edes Harrison (March 11, – January 5, ) was an American scientific illustrator and cartographer.
  • Richard Edes Harrison was an American scientific illustrator and cartographer.
  • Richard Edes Harrison ( - January 5, ) was an American cartographer and cartoonist active in the middle part of the 20th century.

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    Richard Edes Harrison

    Richard Edes Harrison was one of the renowned cartographers of the s. He was a Yale architecture graduate, whose new techniques and theory created novel standards in the field of cartography. Richard Edes Harrison published his first map in in the Time magazine. He worked as a freelance artist, a cartographic consultant and a staff member of various national magazines. He was also a visiting lecturer in many universities.

    Richard Edes Harrison was a gifted illustrator and his maps maintained an artistic dimension. Richard Edes Harrison is known to combine geography, geometry and imagination in his maps. The motive behind the creation of the maps was to serve the map readers and help them understand the political and geographical situations.

    It was in that his work came to be acknowledged. In the same year, Richard Edes Harrison is known to have created maps for Fortune magazine. In these maps he modified the bird’s eye view format to a global setting.

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    Richard Edes Harrison Map of the Pacific From Three Perspectives

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    I: From Alaska. III: From Burma. II: From the Solomons.
       (dated)     x 25 in ( x cm)

    Description

    This Richard Edes Harrison map of the Pacific exemplifies his innovative spherical projection - successfully employed in countless WWII maps. Harrison uses the Pacific Ocean, an important World War II theater, to present his new cartographic paradigm. Here, Harisson exaggerates vertical topography to stand out prominently on land spherically projected to imitate a relief globe. The result leads the reader to interpret the often localized events on which he is focusing, from a global perspective. Today Google Earth and other mapping apps adopt a similar approach. Harrison's audience in , obsessed with every detail about the global war, responded enthusiastically to his approach.

    The Maps Themselves
    Harrison divides the Pacific Ocean into three different views: from Alaska, fro
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    Richard Edes Harrison

    American cartographer (b. , d. )

    For other people with the same name, see Richard Harrison.

    Richard Edes Harrison (March 11, – January 5, ) was an American scientific illustrator and cartographer. He was the house cartographer of Fortune and a consultant at Life for almost two decades. He played a key role in "challenging cartographic perspectives and attempting to change spatial thinking on the everyday level during America’s rise to superpower status".[1]Susan Schulten considers Harrison's maps "critical to the history of American cartography."[2]

    Biography

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    Richard Edes Harrison's father was the biologist Ross Granville Harrison. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in [3] He spent his ungdom in New Haven and went to Yale College where he graduated with a major in zoology and a minor in chemistry.[3] He worked for a time as a draftsman, working for the architect Cass Gilbert and decided to become an ar