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Material World, A Global Family Portrait

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DAYLIGHT approaches: a father in Japan breakfasts on coffee, Pepsi, and vitamin pills before running for the train. Twelve thousand miles away in Haiti, a man winces as he shaves with a much-used dry razor blade. Two girls in Iceland run barefoot in the snow around a hot spring; a boy in the United States happily fills in a firearm-safety coloring book; two boys at a village in Mali amuse themselves by marching around in Mickey Mouse sunglasses. Alone in a hot farmhouse, the wife of a rice grower in Thailand takes a short nap on a teak floor, a TV soap opera chattering at her unconscious back. Welcome to Material World, a remarkable portrait of humanity at the end of the millennium.

In an unprecedented effort, 16 of the world's foremost photographers traveled to 30 nations around the globe to live for a week with families that are statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and family collaborated on a remarkable portrait of the family outside of their home, surrounded by all of their possessions--a few jars and jugs for some, an explosion of electronic gadgetry for others. Vividly portraying the look and feel of the human condition everywhere on Earth like nothing before, Material World puts a human face on the issues of population, environment, social justice, and consumption and brilliantly illuminates the crucial question facing our species today: Can all 6 billion of us have all the things we want?

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306.85 MEN m

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Call Number

306.85 MEN m

Publisher

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books., 1995

Collation

256 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780871564306

Classification

306.85

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Edition

Paperback

Subject(s)

Cross-cultural
Economic development

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