>>3515215Looked at my mags, the quality comes from them just scanning whole pages..
>>3515318You can find similar look in some photo reportage themed time-life books in used book stores or libraries. Early to mid era had the same really high quality photo look to them. Time-Life Library of Nations are reportage, and then you've some high quality photo art books in Library of Photography collection.
Accompanying text is in the line of National Geographic, simple and for the laymen, it's the pictures that warrant study, and are of extremely high quality. Even more so than nat geo, who put the moment before artistic and optical quality.