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  • Painters, each with his own traditional design assignment applies color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod").
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  • Ghasem Imami, 21, a potter working for several years despite his young age, forms one of many he will create during the course of his workday at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod").
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  • Painted and glazed Tonala pottery, Mexico.
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  • Closeup of a traditional blue flower design being applied to a bisqueware vase at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod"). Painters there each has his own design assignment, often working with others applying their own elements on a single piece.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Thinly sliced lamb chops called chuletas are cooked over embers from burning grape vines at the annual wine harvest festival in Logroño, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Ceramic museum display with wooden spoons in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • Antique dealer and son in front of his shop in Seville, Spain.
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  • The clay Kumbha (water pot) has a special significance in the Hindu cremation ritual. It is blessed in the early stages of the ritual and then, most often during the series of rituals designed to ensure the proper path in death for a loved one, the Kumbha is carried by a mourner three times around the burning body then dropped (and it breaks).
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  • The Itanoni Tortilleria ("Gourmet Tortillas") in Oaxaca, Mexico sells handmade tortillas from native corn that it contracts local growers to produce. In the back room, workers wash dried corn after cooking it. It is then ground into a moist flour that is pressed into tortillas and cooked on clay oven tops, called "comals".
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  • Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California. Designed by Simon Rodia 1921-1955. Untrained as an architect, engineer, or builder, Simon Rodia created a complex of towers that rose over one hundred feet tall. Composed of structural steel rods and circular hoops connected by spokes, the towers incorporate a sparkling mosaic of found materials including pottery, seashells, and glass. Rodia's house, destroyed by fire in 1957, resided within the complex..Declared hazardous by the city of Los Angeles, the towers were threatened with demolition until an engineer's stress test proved them structurally sound. They have since been designated a cultural monument. USA.
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  • Painters apply color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) pottery Factory, Meybod (Also spelled "Maybod"), Iran. Each of the painters applies an assigned traditional design.
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  • Watts Towers in Los Angeles, California. Designed by Simon Rodia 1921-1955. Untrained as an architect, engineer, or builder, Simon Rodia created a complex of towers that rose over one hundred feet tall. Composed of structural steel rods and circular hoops connected by spokes, the towers incorporate a sparkling mosaic of found materials including pottery, seashells, and glass. Rodia's house, destroyed by fire in 1957, resided within the complex..  Declared hazardous by the city of Los Angeles, the towers were threatened with demolition until an engineer's stress test proved them structurally sound. They have since been designated a cultural monument.
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Peter Menzel Photography

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