Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 69 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Lava flowing into the sea from Kilauea. Hawaii, Big Island, USA.
    USA_HI_04_xs.jpg
  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Fresh baked bread for family by Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45. Model-Released.
    NOR_130522_155_x.jpg
  • A steam cloud rises above lava flowing into the sea from the Kilauea eruption. Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
    USA_HI_03_xs.jpg
  • An afternoon swim in the river Ganga. Near the Dashashwamedh ghat. Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
    IND_040413_316_x.jpg
  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, baking weekly bread for family. Model-Released.
    NOR_130522_149_x.jpg
  • New Lava flow on Kilauea Volcano. Kilauea most recently erupted in 1983 and lava has flown consistently since then. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Hawaii, Big Island.
    USA_HI_09_xs.jpg
  • A golfer teeing off at a golfcourse overlooking the oil refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland.
    SCO_01_xs.jpg
  • After hunting dragonflies in a rice field with a homemade bamboo whip tipped with sticky jack fruit sap, an Indonesian boy treats himself to a short swim under a waterfall, Batuan, Bali, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 61) 
    IDO_meb_9B_cxxs.jpg
  • After hunting dragonflies in a rice field with a homemade whip tipped with sticky jackfruit sap, an Indonesian boy treats himself to a short swim under a waterfall in Batuan, Bali, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Ido_meb_9_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. Pig carcasses cooling. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_17_xs.jpg
  • Ricki the chimp takes a moment to appreciate nature through his sunglasses at the Bailiwick Ranch and Discovery Zoo, in Catskill, New York. (Ricki the chimp is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  His owners, Pam Rosaire-Zoppe and Roger Zoppe say that he likes fresh fruits and vegetables, and an occasional yogurt drink, far more than packaged monkey chow. (MODEL RELEASED).
    USA_080623_234_xw.jpg
  • Ricki the chimp takes a moment to appreciate nature through his sunglasses at the Bailiwick Ranch and Discovery Zoo, in Catskill, New York. (Ricki the chimp is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  His owners, Pam Rosaire-Zoppe and Roger Zoppe say that he likes fresh fruits and vegetables, and an occasional yogurt drink, far more than packaged monkey chow. (MODEL RELEASED).
    USA_080623_232_xw.jpg
  • Observers watching sunrise at Haleakala summit. Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii. USA.
    USA_HI_32_xs.jpg
  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from the top of the tunnel that goes through Yerba Buena. City lights of San Francisco seen on the right.
    USA_BDG_14_xs.jpg
  • Gun range: Explosion at live fire weapons demo.  Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
    USA_MILT_06_xs.jpg
  • A boy swims with his goat in the late afternoon in the Niger River at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
    Mal_mw_745_xs.jpg
  • Art installation at Burning Man called 'Temple of Waterby 2.0 Marque Cornblatt'. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
    USA_BMAN_191_xs.jpg
  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). Vineyards and forest in the rain.
    USA_NCAL_04_xs.jpg
  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). Vineyards adjacent to park (seen from park on a rainy day).
    USA_NCAL_03_xs.jpg
  • Skirted Palm trees reflected in natural desert pool at Thousand Palms, California.
    USA_DSRT_06_xs.jpg
  • Roger Moore with Charles Jensen and his dog at Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_CA_26_xs.jpg
  • Charles Jensen with his dog at the Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_CA_24_xs.jpg
  • East of Imperial Valley. Imperial Sand dunes, California, with the All American Canal in the foreground.
    USA_CA_14_xs.jpg
  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. Early morning fog and commuter traffic with San Francisco seen in the background.
    USA_BDG_13_xs.jpg
  • Mono Lake, California. Tufa formations with December snow. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
    USA_021222_007_x.jpg
  • Early March snow dusting the adobe style homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
    USA_NM_07_xs.jpg
  • Castle on the shore of the Lago di Garda, Italy.
    ITA_13_xs.jpg
  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, inspects the church's wine cellars at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
    ITA_040614_075_xxw.jpg
  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
    USA_GCAN_02_xs.jpg
  • Takuya Mizuhara, an 18 year old university student (third from the right) with his friends at his favorite meeting place, McDonalds in Shibuya District of Tokyo, Japan. (Takuya Mizuhara is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    Japan_JAP_060702_151_xw.jpg
  • Boys run and leap into the Niger River in the late afternoon at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
    Mal_mw_746_xs.jpg
  • Flowers growing out of a pahoehoe lava flow. Pahoehoe is formed when lava bubbles to the surface and partially dries creating a semi-hardened outer layer. The underlying molten lava continues flowing, pushing the pahoehoe into a bubbly form. Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
    USA_HI_05_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Energy: Picnic area and windsurfers enjoy the cooling pond for the Nuclear Power Plant in Rancho Seco, California (1987). Cooling towers on opposite shore..
    USA_SCI_ENGY_46_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Energy: Picnic area and windsurfers enjoy the cooling pond for the Nuclear Power Plant in Rancho Seco, California (1987). Cooling towers on opposite shore.
    USA_SCI_ENGY_45_xs.jpg
  • Photographer Peter Menzel in front of cooling beef carcass parts. The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA .[[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_21_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear energy: Nuclear Power Plant cooling towers punctuate the agrarian German countryside, with a farmer and his wife working in the foreground, Offingen, Germany. (1987) .
    GER_SCI_ENGY_42_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear energy: Nuclear Power Plant cooling towers flanking the village church steeple, Offingen, Germany. (1987).
    GER_SCI_ENGY_41_xs.jpg
  • Professor Robert J. Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley has been working with roboticists for years, supplying them with information on small animal locomotion that is used to conStruct innovative robots. Recently, the Lab has been working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), testing and evaluating artificial muscles. Dr. Kenneth Meijer (from Holland) compares and measures a Stanford Artificial Muscle with a natural one from the leg of the Death Head Cockroach. After cooling the cockroach and exposing leg extensor muscle number 179, an electrode is suctioned into the muscle to simulate the nerve-to-muscle connection. Published in Stern Magazine, February 11th, 2000.
    Usa_rs_657_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear power plant cooling towers of the Cannenom Nuclear Power Station in France on the Moselle River, near Thionville, 35 km from Luxembourg. Plant consists of 4 pressurized water reactors, each generating 1300 MW. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    LUX_070415_035_rwx.jpg
  • Experimental cryonics: The family of scientist Paul Segall at home in Berkeley, California, with the family dog Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health. MODEL RELEASED 1992.
    USA_SCI_CRY_11_xs.jpg
  • Experimental cryonics: Paul Segall in his garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, with his family and Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health.  Human cryonics clients are frozen & preserved in liquid nitrogen to await the advances in medical science that a future thaw might bring about. However, conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs are plagued by problems of intracellular ice formation, which destroys cells. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
    USA_SCI_CRY_10_xs.jpg
  • Russian style apartment buildings in urbanized Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The city's big coal-fired power plants (smokestack and 3 cooling towers in background) and countless small coal-burning stoves create a polluted haze. Published in Material World, page 43.
    Mon_mw_4_xxs.jpg
  • Experimental cryonics: Paul Segall in his garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, with Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
    USA_SCI_CRY_09_xs.jpg
  • When the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania (no steam rising from the abandoned cooling towers on the left) failed catastrophically in 1979, the intense radioactivity in the plant prevented its owners from surveying and repairing the damage. Four years later, with conditions still unknown, Carnegie Mellon engineer William L. "Red" Whittaker designed several remote-controlled robots that were able to venture into the radioactive plant. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 140.
    USA_rs_477_qxxs.jpg
  • Nuclear power plant cooling towers of the Cannenom Nuclear Power Station in France on the Moselle River, near Thionville, 35 km from Luxembourg. Plant consists of 4 pressurized water reactors, each generating 1300 MW.
    FRA_070415_035_rwx.jpg
  • A crowd gathers before dawn on a bridge over the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipras holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the Patkar family of Ujjain, India join the faithful throng in the cool of the evening and bathe in the river, too. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 169).
    IND_040419_001_x.jpg
  • Boots and Coots attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are using a heat-hardened backhoe to scrape away debris from around the burning wellhead while team members cool the equipment with a constant water spray. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030328_118_rwx.jpg
  • View at dusk of the rooftop of Amir Chakhaq Complex from its highest point. Windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), seen jutting out of the top of the roof catch the wind and cool the building. The domes (called gonbads) Yazd, Iran.
    IRN_061213_378_rwx.jpg
  • Built from mud bricks, windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.  Yazd, Iran. Old City.
    IRN_061209_148_rwx.jpg
  • Corey Wilson and John Wilson, members of the Dinosaur Cove excavation team cool off in a rock tide pool after drilling holes in the working face of the mine to allow explosives to be placed. The explosives are used to dislodge large pieces of rock, which are then removed and checked for fossil remains. Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway in southern Australia, is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleo-ontological excavations. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_27_xs.jpg
  • Unilever tea plantation workers' housing amidst the lush, rolling tea fields in the Kericho district, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The Kericho district in the Great Rift Valley has rich volcanic soil, cool air, and a moist tropical climate that's perfect for growing tea. With its popular tea brand Lipton, Unilever has helped make Kenya the number one exporter of black tea in the world. Since the evergreen tea bushes are picked every 14 to 17 days year-round, there is constant work for pickers. They're paid by the kilo of tea leaves and a field foreman reported that they can earn between $3 and $9 (USD) per day. To compete with Unilever and James Finlay, another huge corporate tea producer in Kenya, the Kenya Tea Development Agency represents half a million small-scale tea growers throughout Kenya.
    KEN_090228_058_xxw.jpg
  • Windtowers (called badgirs in Farsi) tower over homes in the city of Yazd, Iran. They are designed to catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings naturally, with no fans or electricity. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.
    IRN_061209_148_xw.jpg
  • On a slow Saturday in Ban Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, the hottest action in the village is in the cool shade under the Khuenkaew's house. Three weeks ago, Boontham and Bourphet gave their son Visith, 9, a hand-held video game, and the household has been filled with its beeps and buzzes ever since. The family's dog hangs out with Visith. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
    Tha_mw_708_xs.jpg
  • On a slow Saturday in Ban Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, the hottest action in the village is in the cool shade under the Khuenkaew's house. Three weeks ago, Boontham and Bourphet gave their son Visith, 9, a hand-held video game, and the household has been filled with its beeps and buzzes ever since. Here his best friend plays with the game as Visith's 14-year-old sister Jeeraporn, left, and her friends watch. Published in Material World page 82. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
    Tha_mw_2_xxs.jpg
  • The Blue Lagoon, a surreal-looking spa created near the Svartsengi power plant, outside Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity ? and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is cool enough. Environment. Published in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 168-169.
    Ice_mw_4_xxs.jpg
  • Napa Valley, California. Machine harvesting of chardonnay grapes at pre-dawn hours when it is cool. Trefethen Vineyards.
    USA_NAPA_24_xs.jpg
  • A view of the rooftop of Amir Chakhaq Complex in the city of Yazd, Iran from its highest point at dusk. Windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), seen jutting out of the top of the roof, catch the wind and cool the building. The domes are called gonbads.
    IRN_061213_378_xw.jpg
  • A crowd gathers before dawn on a bridge over the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipras holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the Patkar family of Ujjain, India join the faithful throng in the cool of the evening and bathe in the river, too. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 169).
    IND_040419_002_x.jpg
  • The Blue Lagoon, a surreal-looking spa created near the Svartsengi power plant, outside Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity ? and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is cool enough. Material World Project.
    Ice_mw_700_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. A worker in a red hardhat trims beef. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_23_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_20_xs.jpg
  • Baboon blood research for cryonic purposes. Surgical staff checking a baboon in an ice bath during an artificial blood experiment. The baboon's blood has been replaced with an artificial substitute. Here, its body temperature is being cooled to below 10 degrees Celsius for three hours. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
    USA_SCI_CRY_04_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_22_xs.jpg
  • Peter Menzel cools off in a water tank south of Walgett, NSW, Australia.  MODEL RELEASED.
    AUS_24_xs.jpg
  • A firefighting oil well worker employed by Safety Boss of Canada cools off in a tank of seawater in July 1991 during efforts to cap a well during the Kuwait Oil Well Fires. Ambient temperatures in the July desert exceeded 120 degrees F and often went much higher. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_026_xs.jpg
  • Baboon blood research for cryonic purposes. Surgical staff checking a baboon in an ice bath (upper right) during an artificial blood experiment. The baboon's blood has been replaced with an artificial substitute. Here, its body temperature is being cooled to below 10 degrees Celsius for three hours. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
    USA_SCI_CRY_03_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a large refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA .[[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_19_xs.jpg
  • Wild flower and trinitite. Trinitite is a metamorphic rock found in New Mexico. It was formed during the explosion of the world's first nuclear bomb, code-named Trinity, on 16 July 1945. Trinitite is an altered silicate resembling rough green glass. The extreme temperatures of the nuclear explosion melted the native sandstone soil. As the material cooled it formed a glassy structure. The greenish color comes from iron in the sand - the same iron, which as an oxide gave the original sand its reddish color. Most of the original radioactivity of the trinitite has gone in the last decades. First atomic bomb test site. (1984).
    USA_SCI_NUKE_10_xs.jpg
  • In the tiny kitchen of Nadia Ahmed's fourth floor apartment a plate of chicken cools, enough for both women's families and a few friends. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 123).
    EGY03_0005_xxf1.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries