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©2009 John Stanmeyer/National Geographic Today we present seven images by John Stanmeyer from the June 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Above: Skilled fingers separate good seed from bad at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines. “Miracle rice” varieties developed here in the 1960s doubled yields in Asia. Further growth has stalled since the mid-1990s, as investment in agriculture has declined. “Governments thought we’d won the war on food security,” says IRRI Director General Robert Zeigler. “So they put money elsewhere.” Cover: ©2009 National Geographic

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Photographer: Hans Starck
Client: Visine/Johnson & Johnson
Ad agency: JWT New York
Co-President/chief creative officer, North America: Ty Montague
Chief creative officer, New York: Harvey Marco
Executive creative director: Andrew Clarke, Kash Sree
Creative director and art director: Raphael Milczarek
Copywriter: Humberto Jiron
Illustrator, typographer and designer: Aaron Padin
Director of art buying: Shawn Smith
Art buyer: Carly Chappell
Print producer: Jena Mattison
Producer: Tonya Martin
Production company: Sweet Genius

Inspired by the TV show Mad Men, which takes place at an early-1960s ad agency, we recently picked up a stack of old magazines from 1962. Here we present some of the advertisements we found. We scanned and color-corrected the ads to remove the yellowing effects of old paper. The names of the photographers who shot these ad campaigns are lost to history, but their work lives on in our gallery. (14 more images follow.) (more…)