Word: balog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overweight because they're lazy. Europeans don't stay thin by exercising three times a week or by eating nonfat foods. They stay thin by living active lives. The U.S. is designed around cars, not pedestrians or bicycles, and until that changes, Americans will continue to be fat. APRIL BALOG Hamburg, Germany
...first the assignment sounded like an art director's impossible dream. Yet the task turned out to be relatively easy, recalls Balog, who conducted the photo session in a Hollywood studio. Sally, who belongs to a local animal trainer, has a rudimentary understanding of human language, so she was able to follow simple verbal commands like "Sit." The problem, though, was getting her to remain still for several minutes at a time. She would squirm, twitch and monkey around with the photographic equipment. The crew used grapes, apples, carrots, raisins and even bananas as bribes to get Sally to cooperate...
...Balog, 40, is no stranger to wildlife photography. He has traveled to Kenya, China and Siberia, and his photographs have appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, Geo and Smithsonian. Balog's 1990 book, Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, a collection of animal portraits taken in zoos, circuses and on wildlife ranches around the world, won the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Though this is his first TIME cover, his work has already been featured in the magazine, including a photo of a 13-year-old teaching two septuagenarians at a computer terminal, which ran in TIME's Machine...
...What strikes me is that so many humans seem offended by the notion of animal intelligence," says Linden, "as though it would devalue language and thought if we shared those abilities with other creatures." But just try to get a chimpanzee to take as good a picture of James Balog as the one he took of Sally...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by James Balog. Chimpanzee is Sally, from Brian McMillan's Animal Rentals Unlimited...