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  • La Gacilly, France. Hungry Planet outdoor exhibit at La Gacilly Photo Festival in Brittany.
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  • Napa, California. Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio at the photo exhibit of their project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts.
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  • Medellin, Colombia. Hungry Planet exhibit at the Parque Explora Science Center.
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  • Menzle and D"Aluisio home, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Peter Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Evan Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel's photo exhibition, "Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects" in Viterbo, Italy. (First International Biennial of Photography on Science and Culture) Viterbo Italy.
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  • Peter Menzel's photo exhibition, "Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects" in Viterbo, Italy. (First International Biennial of Photography on Science and Culture) Viterbo Italy.
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  • Piera looks at family photos with friends. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Manzo family of Palermo, Sicily, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Tama Matsuda, 100 years old, watches as her daughter-in-law Keiko, 75, proudly shows images of Tama at different ages. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Matsuda family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 186). Hara hachi bu "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • La Gacilly, France. Hungry Planet outdoor exhibit at La Gacilly Photo Festival in Brittany.
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  • Medellin, Colombia. Hungry Planet exhibit at the Parque Explora Science Center.
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  • Peter Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio in their cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs voice coach Ansis Sauka and the Kamer Latvian youth choir in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs voice coach Ansis Sauka and the Kamer Latvian youth choir in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets photographs rancher's wife Solange Da Silva Correia at her home  near Manacapuru, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED. PJM
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  • Gopal Jee Singh, 65, from Bihar, holds a butter lamp above his dead wife Subhadra Singh, 60 for a local photographer who takes photographs at the burning ghats and sells prints to families that want a keepsake. Subhadra died last night at 8 p.m. and he and his sons brought her here to Varanasi for the funeral rite, arriving at 3 a.m.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs truck driver Conrad Tolby at sunrise at a truckstop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Birthday celebrant has her photograph taken with her family at an Ogimi Village area nursing home in Okinawa, Japan. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographing sheepherder Miguel Martinez and his flock of sheep at a farm in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain.  (Miguel Martinez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographing high school student Katherine Navas on the roof of her home in Caracas, Venezuela, for the book food portrait. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A photographer films some of the actors at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets,  stands on a vantage point while photographing the city of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • Newly married couple being photographed across the river from the Guggenheim Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry, architect.
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Evan Menzel photographing trinitite at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Standing on a rock overhang, photographer Peter Ginter from Germany shots a photo at Dead Horse Point, Utah. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • 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]].
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  • Self portrait of photographer Peter Menzel overlooking the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat.
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  • Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat.
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  • Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata.; Peter Menzel photographing at the original rat temple, now incorporated into the large complex..
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  • Caracas, Venezuela. Hungy Planet exhibit in the Palace of Fine Arts and adjoining park.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets films game ranger Uahoo Uahoo at Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Faith and David Griffin working on What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets book in Napa, CA
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • Faith D'Aluisio walks the dog while visiting Brian Braff and his wife Nicole and their poodle at their beach house near Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA. On the boardwalk in Venice Beach, California.
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  • A group of friends have their picture taken in front of The Cloud Gate, a large mirroring metal sculpture at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
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  • Swan boat on a Sunday afternoon in June. Lazienki Park, Warsaw.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 18th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, with sheepherder Miguel Martinez (center in blue overalls), his girlfriend and his brother; and translators and assistants in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Martinez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Tombstone with a woman's picture in a graveyard near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. (from Wikipedia)
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visit with Daniela Ciolfi and Fabio Pellegrini. Revisit with the Pellegrini family, 2005, Pienza, Italy. The Pellegrinis were Italy's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 198-199), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site.
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  • New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Tunick is on a ladder taking photos as a Cessna plane flies overhead. 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.
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  • Playboy lingerie shoot. Hollywood, California. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Peter Menzel and David Reed with Richard and Fenella Hodson in front of their house, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sculpture of head L 'Ecoute by Henri de Miller located outside St Eustache church at Les Halles, Paris, France.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France. Third in a series of three photos.
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  • Crowd gathering in Starometske Namesti (old town square) to watch hourly church steeple clock figures. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Carver Mead and the Foveon Digital Camera Studio. Mead sits for a portrait with his new camera. Foveon Inc. built a high-end digital still camera that aimed to rival the quality of analog film. The new startup was backed by Carver Mead, the inventor of the gallium-arsenide transistor, the silicon compiler and the artificial retina. Model Released. 1998.
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  • USA_SFOL_10_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Playboy lingerie shoot. Hollywood, California. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Peter Menzel beneath the roots of a fallen redwood tree.  Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • David Reed with Richard and Fenella Hodson of Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) after pub lunch at White Horse Inn, Hascomb. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • A large mirroring metal sculpture called The Cloud Gate, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, bends the downtown cityscape. USA. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
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  • Peter Menzel and David Reed with Richard and Fenella Hodson in front of their house, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • David Reed with Richard and Fenella Hodson of Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) after pub lunch at White Horse Inn, Hascomb. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. View of media watching the demolition. La Courneuve, France.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel at the Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran (Also spelled Jamah). MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel lying down in the rock tombs from Roman times on the grounds of the Remelluri Winery Labastida, La Rioja, Spain.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France. Second in a series of three photos.
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  • Peter Menzel photographs Tokyo-based photographer Vincent Huang who used the giant Burning Man structure and revelers as a backdrop for his photographs of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with performance artist Ken Hamazaki for a Japanese magazine. 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.
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  • USA  The Long Haul Trucker.Conrad Tolby, an American long-distance truck driver, photographed with a typical day's worth of food on the cab hood of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. The caloric value of his meals this working weekday was 5,400 kcals. At the time of the photograph Tolby was 54 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and weighed 260 pounds. His meals on the road haven't changed much over the years?truck stop and fast-food fare, heavy on the grease?despite warnings from his doctor. He has more reason than most to watch his diet, as he's suffered two heart attacks?both in the cab of his truck. The trucker travels with his best friend and constant companion, a five-year-old shar pei dog, named Imperial Fancy Pants, who gets his own McDonald's burger and splits the fries with Conrad. From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. (Please note that the calorie total is not a daily caloric average. See his chapter, and the methodology, in the book for more information). MODEL RELEASED...Note: The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.
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  • Gopal Jee Singh, 65, from Bihar, holds a butter lamp above his dead wife Subhadra Singh, 60 for a local photographer who takes photographs at the burning ghats and sells prints to families that want a keepsake. Subhadra died last night at 8 p.m. and he and his sons brought her here to Varanasi for the funeral rite, arriving at 3 a.m..Mr. Singh says that his wife didn't want to be cremated and so he and their sons brought her here to the Ganges for a different funeral ritual then most others have.
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  • Soumana Natomo's two wives and a number of their children in the community of Kouakourou, Mali, look at photographs from the initial countries shot for Material World: A Global Family Project before they decided to paticipate in the project. Mali was the third country photographed. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • Ducks for sale in the old Qingping market, Guangzhou, China. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164). Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • A photographer takes souvenir photographs to sell to visitors in Sukhbaatar Square, in the center of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sukhbaatar is Mongolia's national hero who liberated Mongolia from Chinese rule. Parliament buildings are in the background. Material World Project.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs nomadic herder Karsal's wife while she milks a cow at home in the Tibetan plateau.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for photographs at La Maison?a location often used in Cuba for a girls' Quinceañera, the traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party. Revisit of Material World project 2001.
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  • 265-foot wind turbines tower over wheat fields in Birds Landing, California as Peter Menzel photographs John Opris with his day's worth of food for a book. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pig parts and lard are displayed for sale in the municipal market in Cuernavaca, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere?as these photographs demonstrate?come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Tables of beef viscera for sale in a market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate)come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family of the Material World Project, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait. pages 86 & 87. Thailand.
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  • After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family compound, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Funeral. Material World Project.
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  • Props for souvenir photographs in downtown Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in Sukhbaatar Square. Sukhbaatar is Mongolia's national hero who liberated Mongolia from Chinese rule. Material World Project.
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