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ROOM WITH A VIEW

Picture by Chang Liang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

THE CRISIS

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press Dec. 13, 2008 - Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. - One of the busiest airports in the world, Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport is a ghost town compared to before the global financial crisis.

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Welcome to DOUBLEtruck Magazine –

SPRING 2010-Issue EIGHTEEN This issue contains images taken between Sept. 15 and DEC.. 14, 2009

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The last three months have been long...very long. The world has had to hold its breath.

Daily business news has been more frightening and unreal than Stephen King’s scariest tale.

On Sept. 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and went bankrupt, causing the world economy to go into total free fall. Iceland, among others, already was in financial ruins.

Most of the rest of the planet joined them over the following 90 days.

Way too many have lost their savings, jobs and way of life during the period of history

covered in this magazine: Sept. 15, 2008, through Dec. 14, 2008.

As we wait to see what the future holds, we hope for everyone that something positive comes out of this fine mess. We hope that the powers that be learn something from their rampant greed and abuse of the system. We hope that we can come out of this with some dignity left, as these are truly humbling times.

Whatever the course, DOUBLEtruck will look to cover it and bring it you in issue 15 this summer, with tons of the big two-page spreads you would expect from us.

Meanwhile, we hope you take time to dig into this issue. On page 12, Julia Cumes probes into the world of the Devadasi.

Amazingly, time has not moved forward for these women. For generations, their culture has made them into “temple prostitutes,” or sex slaves. Read the moving text and see how some are trying to make a big change that will allow these women to break the cycle.

We wish all the best to you and yours, and we hope that the world breaks the cycle it is in.

Thank you for your support.

Scott Mc Kiernan

World’s best news pictures from Sept. 15 to Dec. 14, 2009

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Obama! Obama! Obama!

Picture by Michael Francis McElroy/ZUMA Press Oct. 21, 2008 - Miami, Florida, U.S. - Barack Obama jokes with a crowd of supporters who are screaming his name as he readies to take the stage at an early Vote for Change rally in Bicentennial Park.

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"I wonder about my future, and it scares me."

This is not the script an embattled Howard Mallinger, 65, planned for his twilight years.

In March 2008, his wife Sheryl, 61, was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer.

Initially, he had trouble getting her the right kind of treatment, he said, because doctors told him they didn’t have the “right kind of insurance.”

Things steamrolled from there, and now he spends his days at the West Broward Nursing and Rehab Center caring for his bedridden wife.

The retiree is unable to pay the power bills, so his electric service was cut off six months ago. The condo he bought for $102,000 in 2006, when he and Sheryl moved to Florida, will be auctioned on June 24 in a foreclosure sale.

Howard watches over his wife Sheryl while she gets a treatment to help her breathing after she came down with a cold.

“I am bankrupt,” he said. “I spent every single dollar I had on my wife’s medical care.”

Howard and his eldest son Greg cool off outside on the front walkway of thier Sunrise condo.

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Howard’s eldest son Greg brings his mother inside after spending some time in the nursing home’s courtyard.

Greg has been making sure his father gets around to his appointments since his mother was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer.

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Picture by Chang Liang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.

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Picture by Chang Liang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

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It’s noon, so Mallinger feeds Sheryl by hand, gently. He painstakingly ensures she sips two cups of water to stay hydrated. Then he finishes his own lunch quickly, to tend to her and be ready for any medical issue that might suddenly come up.

Though Mallinger is broke and said he feels humiliated by his circumstances, his commitment to Sheryl is unwavering.

Despite battling his own ailments, including trouble walking, he springs to his feet to wheel her out of the room and around the hospital, tidying her hair and greeting other chronic patients in the lobby. “She’s my lovely wife,” he continually reminds Sheryl in a soft voice. And Sheryl responds with a smile every time, her eyes reciprocating her husband’s affection.

Mallinger calculated that he owes more than $200,000 to hospitals, drug companies and banks. He knows he can’t pay the bills. Just one chemotherapy session costs him several hundred dollars. Sheryl has to go through it once every three weeks. He sustains himself on his Social Security payment and food banks. His monthly income is $1,170. Sheryl’s Social Security disability payment goes to the rehab center toward her medical care.

“It’s hard,” he said, “it’s getting very, very hard to keep doing it every day, day unto days. People wonder how I do it. I don’t know!”

Mallinger is not alone.

A recent survey shows family caregivers like Mallinger are facing increased financial and emotional hardships caring for loved ones with terminal illnesses or disabilities.

There are approximately 44 million family caregivers in the United States.

Florida, with an estimated 2.7 million caregivers at any one time in 2007, was among the top five states on that list, according to a 2008 AARP report.

The recession has hit caregivers like

Howard says at times that it feels like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders trying to take care of his wife and kids while his house is being taken by the bank. He hasnt told his wife about the foreclosure, and when he’s around her he’s very positive and doesn’t want her to worry.

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Mallinger hard. A survey conducted

by Evercare, a national carecoordination program of United Healthcare, and the nonprofit National Alliance for Caregiving, reveals caregivers are struggling to meet their loved ones’ needs while putting their own futures at risk.

It was a blind date with Sheryl that resulted in their marriage, he remembers vividly. Those days, he said a tad philosophical, were the best time of their life.Mallinger is not giving up.

He remains steadfast to the vow he made 32 years ago when he and Sheryl married. “To be together in good times and in bad,” he recalled with choked voice.

Adding to Mallinger’s challenges, both of his and Sheryl’s adult sons, Greg and Brad, are mentally The couple eked out a living by working challenged. In addition, Brad is as supervisors on an election board in currently hospitalized because he is New York. Sheryl, who doubled up as a suffering from bouts of depression, professional exam proctor, looked after but there’s nothing Mallinger can do the family finances, while Mallinger to support them. “I wish to, but I drove a taxi to add to their income. can’t. It’s simply beyond my means,” he said.

“We paid our mortgage regularly till she fell sick,” Mallinger said in tears, Mallinger poured at least 10 different worried about his future. pills from a small bottle onto his palm.

“See this,” he said. “This is what I Mallinger is stuck. He can’t pay Sheryl’s take to keep going.” He suffers from rising medical bills, nor take her home. high blood pressure, among other He can’t afford medical care at home problems.

-- and that home is being foreclosed upon. “I want to take her home,” he

said, “but I can’t. They are nice here, but it’s not home.” DT

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Photos by ©Michael Franscis McElroy/ZUMA Press Text by ©Jaideep Hardikar/South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Obama Nation

Picture by David Calvert/zReportage.com/ZUMA Press

Sept. 15, 2008 - Reno, Nevada, U.S. - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Nevada.

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Red Army

Picture by Carl Recine/Action Images

Sept. 16, 2008 - Marseille, France - Olympique Marseille soccer fans prepare to root for their team before the UEFA Championship match between Marseille and Liverpool at Stade Velodrome.

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Financial Dominos

Picture by Bernd Kammerer/Action Press

Sept. 16, 2008 - Frankfurt, Germany - A trader reacts with shock as the world financial crisis expands to Germany, causing the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to drop under 6,000 points. The Frankfurt stock exchange was down 4.6 percent on Monday afternoon in the wake of U.S. investment banking giant Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy.

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The Long and Short of It

Picture by John Ferguson/Mirrorpix

Sept. 16, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - The world’s shortest man sits between the world’s longest legs. He Pingping is from China’s Mongolia region and stands 28.74 inches tall. Svetlana Pankratova is from Volgograd, Russia, and her legs are 51.97 inches long.

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Bad Day on the Front

Picture by Paul Avallone/ZUMA Press

Sept. 17, 2008 - Forward Op Base Wilderness, Patkya, Afghanistan - U.S. soldiers cover a fallen comrade’s body with a poncho. The soldier was one of five killed in an IED blast that morning. Captain Bruce E. Hays (Wyoming Army National Guard), Lieutenant Mohsen Naqvi (Active Duty), Sergeant Jason Vazquez (Illinois Army National Guard), Specialist Joshua Harris (Illinois Army National Guard) and Ehsan Shapor (Afghan national, interpreter) were killed in action.

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Barney’s Bank

Picture by Katie Falkenberg/The Washington Times

Sept. 22, 2008 - Washington, D.istrict of Columbia, U.S. - House Financial Services Committee Chairman Senator Barney Frank says lawmakers and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have narrowed their differences on a $700 billion plan to buy bad investments and agreed the U.S. should get equity in the participating companies.

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The People Have Spoken

Picture by Salem Krieger/ZUMA Press

Sept. 25, 2008 - New York, New York, U.S. - People gather in front of the New York Stock Exchange to protest the bailout for Wall Street financial firms.

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Spacewalking

Picture by New China News Agency

Sept. 28, 2008 - Inner Mongolia, China - A crew works at the landing site of China’s Shenzhou-7 re-entry module in Siziwang Banner. The module, which transported three Chinese taikonauts, landed here Sunday and marked China’s first-ever space-walk mission a great success.

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body armor

Picture by Tudor Vintiloiu/zReportage.com/ZUMA Press

Oct. 5, 2008 - Mago National Park, Ethiopia - A woman from the Arbore tribe in the Lower Omo River Valley wears traditional tribal body decoration.

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Stuck on Art

Picture by David Bebber/Times of London

Oct. 6, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - Cang Xin’s solo performance Communication and Feng Zhengjie’s painting Chinese Portrait P Series 2006 No. 01 are on display at the newly opened Saatchi Gallery.

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Face-Off

Picture by Billly Kingsley/The Tennessean

Oct. 7, 2008 - Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. - Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain face off in a debate at Belmont University.

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Battle of the Sexes

Picture by Kike Calvo/ZUMA Press

Oct. 11, 2008 - New York, New York, U.S. - Oregon-born Louisa Holmlund, aka the Naked Cowgirl, sings on the street at Times Square. The lion-haired blonde, who wears nothing but a hat, boots, American flag micro miniskirt and Gina’s Gems to cover her nipples, performs and poses for photographs with tourists not far from the Naked Cowboy.

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What’s My Line?

Picture by Tiffany Brown/ZUMA Press

Oct. 23, 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. - Contestants pose backstage before a Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin look-alike stripper contest at the Club Paradise strip club. They’re competing for prize money and a trip to Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration.

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Cowabunga!

Picture by Lisa Krantz/San Antonio Express-News

Oct. 25, 2008 - San Antonio,Texas, U.S. - Cows are stuck in an 18-wheeler leaning on the guardrail where it tipped over on the North East Loop 410 ramp from I-35 south.

The truck was hauling 87 head of cattle from Capitol Land and Livestock in Schwertner to Corpus Christi.

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Hands Up!

Picture by Autumn Cruz/The Sacramento Bee

Oct. 28, 2008 - Sacramento, California, U.S. - Detective Chris Maher (left) and Deputy Anthony Paonessa place Robert Craft under arrest after Craft allegedly sold marijuana to an undercover officer in the Department of Narcotics Suppression Unit. Stephanie Gonzales, the driver of the vehicle, was attempting to flee when she crashed into a parked vehicle. No one was hurt in the collision or during the subsequent arrest. Craft is being charged with possession for sale of marijuana/hashish and unlawful transportation and/or sale of marijuana. He is also being held without bail for violating his parole for auto theft. Gonzales, Craft’s girlfriend, is being charged with possession for sale of marijuana/hashish.

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Eye on the Ball

Picture by JB Autissier/Panoramic

Oct. 28, 2008 - Paris, France - Andy Murray (GBR) balances a ball on his forehead during the 2008 ATP BNP Paribas Masters at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy.

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bromance

Picture by Dirk Shadd/St. Petersburg Times

Oct. 29, 2008 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. - Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz hugs pitcher Brad Lidge as the Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the 2008 World Series at Citizens Bank Park.

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Red State

Picture by Michael Francis McElroy/ZUMA Press

Oct. 30, 2008 - Mentor, Ohio, U.S. - Joshua (left) and James Winton, 14-year-old twin Young Republicans from Painsville, Ohio, are excited to hear Republican presidential candidate Arizona Senator John McCain speak at a rally at Mentor High School.

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Wanna Play?

Picture by Daimon Xanthopoulos/ZUMA Press

Nov. 1, 2008 - Gulu, Karamoja, Uganda - In the refugee camps of Northern Uganda, there is not much more than plastic bags and robes. But that is enough for the children who dream of an international football career. The children tie the plastic bags together to form a ball. With a ball and a dream for the future, the children play football every day.

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PERFECT POLL POSITION

Picture by Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press

Nov. 4, 2008 - Venice Beach, California, U.S. - Voters cast their ballots in the 2008 presidential election at a polling place located inside the main lifeguard tower.

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Air Hockey

Picture by Felix Adamo/The Bakersfield Californian

Nov. 4, 2008 - Bakersfield, California, U.S. - Condor right winger Jason Bailey tackles Victoria’s Chris St. Jacques near mid-ice during a game at Rabobank Arena.

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Land of the Free

Picture by Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press

Nov. 4, 2008 - Bloomfield Township, Michigan, U.S. - People celebrate the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.

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True Believer

Picture by Patrick T. Fallon/ZUMA Press

Nov. 4, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - Voter Tony Taylor, wears a “Vote Now” T-shirt, a Michelle Obama campaign button and an American-flag bandana as supporters, police and street vendors gear up for Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s election-night speech.

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Mad Hatter

Picture by Tim Merry/Daily Express

Nov. 6, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - Controversial singer Amy Winehouse eyeballs paparazzi as she leaves her Camden home, right before attacking one of them.

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El Hummer

Picture by El Universal

Nov. 10, 2008 - Mexico City, D.F. - Jaime “the Hummer” Gonzalez Duran—a hit man, drug dealer and alleged founder of the Zetas gang—is presumed to be the killer of Mexican singer Valentin Elizalde. Gonzalez is one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Mexico and the United States.

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Oh, Say Can You See...

Picture by Amanda Voisard/The Palm Beach Post

Nov. 11, 2008 - Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. - Junior ROTC Jaguar Daniel Bedwell, 17, holds a loose flag during the Veterans Day service at Veterans Memorial Park.

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Tea Fire

Picture by Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press

Nov. 13, 2008 - Santa Barbara, California, U.S. - A firefighting helicopter makes a nighttime water drop on the Tea Fire, which broke out in the early evening in Montecito and moved into Santa Barbara.The fast-moving blaze, driven by strong winds, has burned 80 homes, 800 acres and forced evacuations in the wealthy Santa Barbara County community.

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Day for Night

Picture by Sean Dufrene/ZUMA Press

Nov. 15, 2008 - Huntington Beach, California, U.S. - Dominc Johnson, 18, left, races his neighbor and friend Jared Drucker, 12, under a smoke-filled sky.

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School’s Out

Picture by Bruce Chambers/The Orange County Register

Nov. 16, 2008 - Brea, California, U.S. - The grounds surrounding Brea Canyon High School and Brea Olinda High School show the devastation created by a brush fire. The fire blew out the windows of Brea Canyon High School.

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House Party

Picture by Steven K. Doi/ZUMA Press

Nov. 16, 2008 - Yorba Linda, California, U.S. - A home is engulfed in fire when a wind-whipped wildfire sweeps through the city, destroying over 50 homes.

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Dirty Waters

Picture by Jefri Aries/ZUMA Press

Nov. 17, 2008 - Jakarta, Indonesia - A scavenger salvages recyclables from a river in a slum area.

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Potty Training

Picture by Peer Grimm/DPA

Nov. 19, 2008 - Berlin, Germany - Participants from sanitation and hygiene groups sit on toilets during a press conference in the German capital’s central railway station on World Toilet Day. The United Nations has proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Sanitation.

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Stuck on You

Picture by Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard

Nov. 19, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - Engineering undergraduate Dave Lions is glued to a giant billboard all day to promote a book launch. Lions was promoting the cult bestseller This Diary Will Change Your Life to help pay his way through university.

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Run for Cover

Picture by Wang Ye/New China News Agency

Nov. 28, 2008 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - An Indian commando runs outside the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower as terrorists hold at least 100 people hostage inside.The death toll stands at 143, including 14 policemen and over 330 injured.

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Roots

Picture by Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-News

Nov. 28, 2008 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - The American Indians in Texas set up a tepee on the grounds of Mission San Juan Capistrano. A ceremony was to be held to mark the date in 1999 when the remains of more than 100 people were reburied in the mission cemetery after being unearthed in 1967 for archaeological study.

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Gas Guzzler

Picture by Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post

Nov. 30, 2008 - Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. - Joe “Pepi� Urban fires up his Xtreme Machine Freightliner Jet Truck at the Citrus Nationals at Palm Beach International Raceway.

The truck uses 60 gallons of fuel for the quarter-mile run.

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poor baby!

Picture by Amiran White/ZUMA Press

Dec. 1, 2008 - Mumbai, India - Moshe Holtzberg (2) cries out, “Ima! Ima!” (“Mommy! Mommy!”) during the memorial at the Knesset Eliyahu synagogue for the six Jews killed last week at Nariman House in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Nearly 200 people were murdered in the attacks, including Holtzberg’s parents, Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, who ran the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch.

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Party Boy

Picture by Jane Hahn/EPA

Dec. 5, 2008 - Tema, Ghana - A supporter of Professor John Atta Mills, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for president, attends the last campaign rally of election season. Ghanaians go to the polls on Sunday to elect the successor to their current leader, President John Kufuor. The top candidates, Nana Afufo-Addo for the NPP (New Patriotic Party) and John Atta Mills for the NDC (National Democratic Congress), are facing off in the fifth election since Ghana returned to a multiparty democracy.

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gettin’ squirrelly

Picture by David Slater/UPPA

Dec. 5, 2008 - Etosha National Park, Namibia - Two Cape grey squirrels battle for dominance as five squirrels watch the fight from a distance.

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Merry Christmas

Picture by Nikos Pilos/ZUMA Press

Dec. 8, 2008 - Athens, Greece - Gangs of youths torch stores and buildings in central Athens and Thessalomiki after the fatal police shooting of a teenager in the worst Greek rioting in years. Athen’s main Christmas tree was set on fire in central Syntagma Square. Some protesters posed for photos in front of the blaze while others sang the Greek version of “Oh Christmas Tree.”

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Playing House

Picture by New China News Agency

Dec. 11, 2008 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinian children play on the leftovers from Israel a destroyed House in Gaza.

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Plane Death

Picture by John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune

Dec. 13, 2008 - El Cajon, California, U.S. - The community gathers at Glen Abbey Memorial Park for the funeral of the four people killed when a USMC F-18 crashed into a home earlier in the week. Don Yoon cries on the mahogany casket containing the remains of his wife,Young Mi Yoon, and their two children, Grace and Rachel. The crash also killed Yoon’s mother, Seokim Kim.

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It’s Your Birthday

Picture by Fady Adwan/ZUMA Press

Dec. 14, 2008 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters gather to hear Hamas leader Ismail Haniya speak during the 21st anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation. The rally was intended as a show of strength in the Islamists’ standoff with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’ administration.

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RED SHOES Diaries

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

Dec 14, 2008 - Moscow, Russia - From dawn to dusk young Muscovites live hard and play harder. Oblivious, as the Russian economy plunges worst than most.

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Day for Night

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

Dec 14, 2008 - Moscow, Russia - From dawn to dusk young Muscovites live hard and play harder. Oblivious, as the Russian economy plunges worst than most.

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Photos by ŠScott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

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PICTURES BY © TAMMI SILICO/ZUMA Press

DT:You made over 200 covers and some of the most famous record covers of all time.

How did your photography career begin?

Henry Diltz: I was a busy young twentysomething—a touring musician as part of the Modern Folk Quartet. I bought a cheap used camera for $20 as a lark and started to use it. I sent it off to Kodak.

When we got back to L.A., we took the yellow box full of moments and set up a slideshow, and everyone loved them. I was hooked. Loved it for the first frame. I only wanted to remember exactly what I saw.

It was all about capturing images and moments, filling the frame with the essence of what I was looking at.

DT: Music’s loss was our gain.

HD: A musician’s life is hanging out, and I knew how to hang out. I was with my friends. I had no schedule, no agenda. I was an everyman, but I happened to have this entrée in a town, and it was a time full of great musicians. I still love playing. But I love photography, too.

DT: I love your iconic Morrison Hotel cover.

How did that come about?

HD: The Doors first called my partner Gary Burden, an amazing graphic artist.

He and I did all these covers together. We were a team. We went to a meeting at the Doors’ little funky office in Hollywood, and we were trying to discuss ideas. Ray Manzarek had been driving down skid row in Los Angeles and told us, “My wife and I saw this great old hotel downtown called Morrison Hotel.” And we all went, “Woo, that sounds great. Let’s go down and take a look.” So, we got everyone together and went down. We went in and told the guy behind the desk, “Look we’re just going to take a photo by your window there.” And he said, “Oh, no, no! You have to talk to the owner.”

“Well where is he?”

“Oh, he’s not here, he’s out of town.”

So, we went outside and said, “What are we going to do now?” And just then I looked in and noticed the guy left the

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Amazing Gracr desk and got in the elevator. So, I said, “Quick! Run back inside and just stand by that window.” And they just ran right in and just kind of hit the place where they were standing. We didn’t plan it, they just kind of went up to the window and kind of kneeled on the back of the chairs that were there. We went click, click, click and took a roll of film, and they were out of there and nobody was the wiser. Gary was always telling me to shoot from a longer point of view, so I went out across the street and framed it and that was that.

DT: Give us the tech info on that day.

HD: I shot Kodak Ektachrome X Slide Film back then and sent it off to Kodak.

They did the rest.

sis photographed in the doorway of her home with her niece. Kamble went blind at a young age and so, when she was eight years old, her parents dedicated her as a Devadasi. “They said you can be buried as a married person now because you’re married to Yellamma,” she says, referring to the ritual of burying unmarried women in a lying down position while married women are buried sitting up. “I wished I could get married but I knew no man would marry because because of my blindness,” she adds.

DT: Was the back cover from the same day?

How did you guys end up at the Hard Rock Café, and is it true that it’s the original one in the chain?

HD: That’s right, it was, sort of. Right after we walked out of the Morrison Hotel, Jim said, “Let’s go get something to drink.

Let’s go get a beer.” We were in this little funky Volkswagen van which the drummer owned. We drove down the block and Morrison yelled out as we were driving, “There it is. Stop there.We’re going inside, and we’re going to shoot the Hard Rock Café, and we’re going to have a couple of beers.” So, we parked the van, went in for about half an hour, having a beer or two, and talked to all the old wino guys that were in there because it was in skid row.

Once inside, Jim got introspective. He was a muse and poet, and this was a prefect place and time for him.The down-and-out loved him. He was buying them beers and hanging to their every word. They had no idea who he or Ray and the guys were.

Did not care. Beers and attention. Does not get much better for these guys.

DT: That sounds like quite a session. Did you know it was epic at the time?

HD: It was a great day. I always had a strong curiosity, and I wanted a front-row seat. A camera was a lovely passport into people’s lives. That day was like so many.

Then as a bonus, a strange magical thing happened a year after the album got re-

leased. Got a call from London and this guy asked, “Would you mind if we use that name on the back of your album? We’re starting a café over here in London and we would like to use that name.” And they said no, go ahead, and that was the beginning of it. Now every time I go into a Hard Rock Café, whatever city I’m in, I always feel like I should get a free hamburger.

DT: Have you been back to the original Morrison Hotel or Hard Rock Café?

BIOGRAPHY HD: Yes, just the other day actually. The hotel is possibly going to be revived, as downtown L.A. is having a renaissance.Yet, the bar is long gone. I checked after the infamous Hard Rock CafĂŠ birth call, and it was gone already at that time. Be great to shoot down there again...

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DT: You sound like you still get the same excitement out of shooting all these years and covers later. What do you think of your legacy?

HD: Yes, I am amazed at the accumulation

Diltz documented as he hung out in the scene. This he successfully achieved, beginning with a $100 sale of a single shot of Buffalo Springfield in 1966. In a memorable six-year partnership with design legend Gary Burden, the list of album covers and artists he shot grew to include names like the Doors, the Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jackson Browne, America, Steppenwolf, James Taylor and Mama Cass. He was an official photographer at Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Life, People, Rolling Stone, High Times and Billboard. Diltz is a partner in and is exclusively published and represented by the Morrison Hotel Gallery.

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