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From pinhole cameras to edible insects, to a guy in Minnesota who likes to get naked, jump into an ice-covered lake and take pictures of it, EGG profiles some of the most important and talented photographers working in America today. You may never be able to see the world quite the same after looking at these photos. viewing options

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Arno - Arno Rafael Minkkinen:
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Arno Rafael Minkkinen's photographs are about his body and its relationship to nature.
Featured in episode: Who Am I?.



Catherine Chalmers:
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According to Catherine Chalmers, there is nothing innocent about eating. In "The Food Chain" she acts as both an entomologist and a photographer, chronicling this most natural of processes alongside roaches, caterpillars, and other creepy-crawlies.
Featured in episode: Unnatural Science.



Gregory Crewdson:
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Gregory Crewdson searches for the odd and the uncanny in the small town of Lee, Massachusetts. The town's pastel-colored houses and neatly groomed lawns serve as the evocative landscape for Crewdson's larger-than-life photographs. His subjects are the people of Lee.
Featured in episode: Close To Home.



Bruce Gilden:
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Bruce Gilden is a street photographer and master of the stolen moment.
Featured in episode: Who Am I?.



Ralph Howell:
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Virtually anything can be turned into a pinhole camera: a cereal box, a coconut, or even a cowboy boot. EGG visits Ralph Howell, a high school photography teacher and pinhole camera expert from San Antonio, Texas.
Featured in episode: Made in the USA.



Connie Imboden:
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For most of her life, Connie Imboden has had a debilitating fear of water. Now, she's facing it through photography, actually going below the surface to take her pictures.
Featured in episode: Slippery When Wet.



Sally Mann:
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In the early 80s, Sally Mann exhibited photographs of her three young children. For many, the photographs were incendiary and their suggestions of budding sexuality taboo. Sally Mann's children have grown up and left the nest. Now, her work explores yet another taboo -- death.
Featured in episode: Giving Up the Ghost.



Play With Your Food:
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Artist Saxton Freymann loves to play with his food. For every orange, apple, potato and pepper, there's a sculpture waiting to be made.
Featured in episode: Eat Me.



Jeanine Pohlhaus:
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When photographer Jeanine Pohlhaus returned to her childhood home in 1994 to care for her ailing father, she found an unexpected subject for a photo essay: the impact of mental illness on her family.
Featured in episode: Close To Home.



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