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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Tunick is on a ladder taking photos as a Cessna plane flies overhead. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Ivan at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bardenas Reales landscape in Navarra, Spain.
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  • Sunbathing, Barceloneta beach, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team in the Magwa oil field, in an ammo bunker booby trapped with hand grenades. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
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  • A child in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Photograph Peter Menzel's medium telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • At dawn after the night of the burn, dancers still move to techno music in the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA. Dawn after the burning of the giant man, dancing to Techno music.
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  • Work out at the beach at sunset in Naples, Florida, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Playing on the beach at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Playing on the beach at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Taos Pueblo cemetery with approaching storm clouds, New Mexico, USA.
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  • Children play in a rubble-strewn playground at the looted Sheikh Madar Elementary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The teachers of the school work without pay. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Children play in a rubble-strewn playground at the looted Sheikh Madar Elementary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The teachers of the school work without pay. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.March 1992.
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  • After some boys run and leap into the Niger River in the late afternoon at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali, one of them lies in the warm sand on the river's edge. Material World Project.
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  • Cows lounge on the sandy shore of the Ganges River near the the Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) which is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi.  Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view.
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  • A decomposing cow floats in the Ganges River across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India. Human remains also wash up on the sandy shore on this side of the Ganges. Varanasi, India.
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  • Across the Ganges River from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India, human remains wash up on the sandy shore. A human skull.
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  • Fulgurite from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. A fulgurite is formed when lightning penetrates the sandy soil, often fusing it into the shape of the electricity's path. A witness who saw lightning strike the ground in Avra Valley, Arizona dug up this fulgurite. Held by Anna M. Domitrovic, Assistant Curator of Earth Sciences at the Desert Museum. (1992)
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  • A human skull on the sandy banks of the Ganges River. across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi.
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