The Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Price: 16,700 OBO
Description:
Photographer Peter Menzel and author Faith D’Aluisio spent time with the families as they farmed, shopped, cooked and ate. At the end of each visit, they created a portrait of the family surrounded by a week’s worth of their groceries. The goal of the project and books is to help people see the world in a broader context and provide the means for comparing oneself to others.
The Hungry Planet: What the World Eats exhibition is an expanded version of Menzel and D’Auisio’s original project, and features fifteen families from twelve countries. Each section shows how the family acquires their food and prepares it according to the related cultural traditions. The centerpiece is a family portrait with members gathered around a still life display of a week’s worth of groceries. The exhibition also offers insights into each country’s nutrition and health along with the impact that poverty, conflict, and globalization may have had.
The photo exhibition has previously displayed at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts, Napa; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Exploris Kids Museum, Raleigh; Museum of the African Disapora, San Francisco; and COSI, Columbus.
It was a solo exhibit at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo for 6 months as well as the Boston Science Museum, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; all 5 of the national science museums in Canada, etc.
Exhibition includes:
This Exhibition is comprised of 82 photos (30 family portraits, 52 daily life images), 30 family captions, and 30 family grocery lists.
The exhibition comes packaged in its shipping crates, along with two pallets of “The Hungry Planet” books, all necessary hardware for installation, and content panels for each photo collection. The frames are graphic panels (not wooden frames) and feature metal stand-offs for mounting.
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About the photographer:
Peter Menzel Biography
Peter Menzel is a photographer known for his coverage of international feature stories on science and the environment. His award-winning photographs have been published in Life, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Stern, and GEO. He has received a number of World Press and Picture of the Year awards.
Faith D’Aluisio is a former television news producer whose work received awards from the Associated Press and the United Press International. The editor and lead writer for the Material World book series, she received the James Beard Foundation Award in 1999 for Best Book, Reference and Writing on Food for Man Eating Bugs.
Menzel and D’Aluisio are the co-creators of the books Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, and Women in the Material World. They are also the co-authors of Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects, and Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species.
They live in Napa, California, and are the parents of four adult sons: Josh, Jack, Adam and Evan.
https://www.menzelphoto.com/portfolio/G0000s3jj73.5TSs
Condition: Excellent
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