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  • Ceramic museum display with wooden spoons in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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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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  • Antique dealer and son in front of his shop in Seville, Spain.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Antique shop. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • MEX_114_xs.Painter of flat dinner plates in a workshop in Tonala, Mexico..
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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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  • 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 Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Chapati, unleavened flat bread, prepared by Pritpal Qureshi, 49, in her kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • The courtyard of Simon Bolivar's birthplace tile-roofed home in Caracas, Venezuela.
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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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  • Physics: Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, California. New Materials: Cermet. Paul Curtis putting ceramic and aluminum in oven. MODEL RELEASED [1991]
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Peter Menzel Photography

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