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Material World

A Global Family Portrait

by Peter Menzel ; Paul Kennedy ; Charles C. Mann

ISBN: 0871564300
ISBN-13: 9780871564306
Format: Paperback

Summary

Three hundred and fifty nine color photographs of average families in 30 countries, documenting the details of their lives, and including a formal portrait of each family in front of its home.

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"Striking..it's like seeing 'The Family of Man' in the global village."

   -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Peter Menzel has retrieved the human heart of our primal and primate existence: a clustering of kin..and the shelter they gather within. He has done so simply, with an inventory of household objects and panoramic photographs of the kin-groups with their immediate wealth. The result is spectacular, especially with the warm and attentive 'photographer's notes' that accompany each of the thirty households from Uzbekistan to Mali, Samoa to suburban USA...The photo may be simple, but the humor, trust, and persuasion required to set up the shot are awesome."    -- Peter Warshall

   -- Whole Earth Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published date: 1995
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Weight: 2.5 pounds
Pages: 255

Publisher's Notes

Menzel photographed average families in each of 30 nations, posed with their possessions gathered around them. As they depict the meaning of material wealth around the world, these dramatic photos ask a fundamental question: Can all five billion of us have everything we want? "A record of striking value".--Scientific American. 359 color photos.

Other Editions

Hardcover - Univ of California Pr (1994) - from $10.97
Paperback - Univ of California Pr (1995) - from $7.50

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