Aus­tri­an Natio­nal Libra­ry: Image Editing for the Yoi­chi Oka­mo­to Pho­to Exhi­bi­ti­on Catalogue

Mili­ta­ry pho­to­grapher, per­so­nal pho­to­grapher of the Com­man­der-in-Chief of the Ame­ri­can Armed Forces in Aus­tria, head of the pho­to depart­ment of the United Sta­tes Infor­ma­ti­on Ser­vice in Aus­tria and later on, offi­ci­al pre­si­den­ti­al pho­to­grapher in the White House.

Yoi­chi Oka­mo­to’s life was eventful and his pho­to­gra­phic work remar­kab­le, both on an aes­the­tic as well as on a social and poli­ti­cal level. The exhi­bi­ti­on in the Sta­te Hall of the Aus­tri­an Natio­nal Libra­ry “Bild macht Poli­tik” or “Image Power Poli­tics” bears wit­ness to this pho­to­grapher’s incre­di­ble life and talent. Of cour­se, such a spe­cial exhi­bi­ti­on requi­res an equal­ly spe­cial, top-qua­li­ty catalogue. 

For this pro­ject, we were in char­ge of editing all the pho­tos which had been sel­ec­ted to be published in the cata­lo­gue. The black-and-white pho­to­graphs were gathe­red from many dif­fe­rent sources, varied in colour tone and qua­li­ty. Our task con­sis­ted in giving a con­sis­tent visu­al appearance to all the pic­tures gathe­red from many dif­fe­rent sources.

The result is a beau­tiful exhi­bi­ti­on cata­lo­gue, appe­al­ing in both its con­tent and visu­al appearance — a true gem for histo­ry or pho­to­gra­phy enthu­si­asts, of which we can be proud.