An Eye for Culture - photos by Peter Menzel


	An Eye for Culture - photos by Peter Menzel
haraya
6-24-2007 3:30 AM
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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/multimedia/artist-gallery/peter-menzel/index.php" href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/multimedia/artist-gallery/peter-menzel/index.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smithsonianmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/multimedia/artist-gallery/peter-menzel/index.php"><BIO _moz-userdefined="">
Peter Menzel is known for his international photographic coverage
of the sciences, world cultures, and the environment. His photos
have been published in the world's best magazines and have garnered
many awards. He is the creator and principal photographer for the
book <I>Material World: A Global Family Portrait</I>, and is
co-author with his wife Faith D'Aluisio of the books <I>Women in
the Material World</I>; <I>Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New
Species</I>; and the award-winning <I>Man Eating Bugs: The Art and
Science of Eating Insects</I>. Their most recent book, <I>Hungry
Planet: What the World Eats</I>, received the 2006 award for best
book of the year from the James Beard Foundation and the Harry
Chapin Media Award. They are working on two new books: <I>Nutrition
101</I> (101 people documented with a day's worth of food); and
<I>The End</I> (death rituals around the world). 
Several
thousand of Menzel's images can be seen on his website, <A href="http://www.menzelphoto.com/">www.menzelphoto.com</A>.<BR /></BIO></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13B1FB02-B3CE-44E4-A2B5-7F6D32A0F669/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>