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ABOUT THE ESSAY
The Art of Solid WasteOn Places, a slideshow of photographer Paho Mann's images of post-consumer detritus — a.k.a. trash — part of a new public art project at a solid waste facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nancy Levinson is executive director and editor of Places. Previously she was founding co-editor of Harvard Design Magazine and, at Arizona State University, the first director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory.More Bio >>
Paho Mann lives and works in Denton, Texas, where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of North Texas. More Bio >>
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