{"id":94018,"date":"2016-02-02T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94018"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:03:00","slug":"one-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/one-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"One Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photographing inequality.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94055\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94055\" class=\"wp-image-94055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-2-1024x823.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chef from a nearby luxury lodge waits for his guests to arrive from a hot-air-balloon excursion before serving them champagne in the middle of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Guillaume Bonn, 2012\u2014INSTITUTE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I&#8217;d warmly recommend it. It\u2019s super luxurious and, right next door, there\u2019s a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps. The great Indian photographer Raghubir Singh termed this genre of photography \u201cthe abject as subject.\u201d It has a long and distinguished history\u2014and not just in what used to be called the Orient. In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude. This resilience was easily incorporated into the ideology of ceaseless endeavour that continues to underpin the system of exploitation that condemned them to destitution in the first place. It\u2019s just that now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Grapes of Wrath<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> has turned into <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Nickel and Dimed<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">. The iconic photographs of the Great Depression, meanwhile, have acquired a kind of stonewashed glamour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The photos here, many of them depicting the trappings of glamour to which we aspire, are neither harrowing nor heroic. Artistically driven\u2014but politically informed\u2014they remind us that the adjacency which is unignorable at the Four Seasons in Mumbai is the very condition of globalization. And while they have the aesthetic perfection or stylization that fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, they gently insist on the context he provided in <em>Tender Is the Night<\/em>. For the sake of Nicole Diver, Fitzgerald writes, \u201cgirls canned tomatoes in August or worked rudely at the Five-and-Tens on Christmas Eve; half-breed Indians toiled on Brazilian coffee plantations and dreamers were muscled out of patent rights in new tractors.\u201d Elegance and degradation turn out to be neighbors. While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth we become complicit in\u2014or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we too are beneficiaries of\u2014an economic system we routinely deplore. To take just one example, those screen graphs which at first sight seem to be recording a patient\u2019s health\u2014an assumption encouraged by the picture being adjacent (that word again) to one of a patient undergoing rhinoplasty surgery\u2014are showing streams of financial data and figures. These abstracted patterns and flows are transactions whose consequences will somewhere be as tangibly manifest as surgery. The effects are all around us, like the water in which the man floats serenely in Singapore\u2014but, as the crashes of 1929 and 2008 proved, the edge might not be as infinitely safe as it appears.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_94063\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94063\" class=\"wp-image-94063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zed-nelson-1-1024x816.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A twenty-five-year-old British man in London undergoes surgery to reduce the size of his nose, 2011, Zed Nelson<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94060\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94060\" class=\"wp-image-94060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nina-berman-2-1024x877.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled #5<\/i>, from <i>Hedge<\/i>, 2010, Nina Berman\u2014NOOR<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94056\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94056\" class=\"wp-image-94056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marchand-meffre-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Rivoli Theater, Berkeley, CA, 2013<\/i>. Opened as a cinema and performance space in 1925, closed in the nineteen-fifties. Subsequently used by various supermarkets. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94054\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94054\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94054\" class=\"wp-image-94054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/guillaume-bonn-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maids prepare a room for a guest in a wealthy Kenyan household, 2011, Guillaume Bonn\u2014INSTITUTE<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94053\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94053\" class=\"wp-image-94053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/david-chancellor-1-1024x824.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled #IV, Mine Security, North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania<\/i>, 2011, David Chancellor\u2014kiosk<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94052\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94052\" class=\"wp-image-94052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/daniel-shea-1024x794.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Cheshire, Ohio<\/i>, 2009, Daniel Shea<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94051\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94051\" class=\"wp-image-94051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/chris-anderson-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street preacher in New York appeals to Wall Street to repent, 2011, Christopher Anderson\u2014 Magnum Photos<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94050\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94050\" class=\"wp-image-94050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anna-skladmann-1024x838.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Varvara in Her Home Cinema<\/i>, Moscow, 2010, Anna Skladmann<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94062\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94062\" class=\"wp-image-94062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woods-galimberti-2-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Pauli opens a high-security vault at the Singapore Freeport. One of the most secure places on earth, the Freeport has biometric recognition, more than 200 cameras, vibration detection technology, nitrogen fire extinguishers, and seven-ton doors. Pauli is the general manager of an art handling company that sets up vaults around the world. 2013, Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti\u2014INSTITUTE<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94061\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94061\" class=\"wp-image-94061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/philippe-chancel-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Desert Spirit\u2014Sold<\/i>, 2007\u20132010, Philippe Chancel \u00a9 the artist and Melanie Rio Gallery<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94058\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94058\" class=\"wp-image-94058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-1-1024x807.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Liquidation Sale VII<\/i>, 2000, Mitch Epstein, \u00a9 Black River Productions, Ltd. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co., New York<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94059\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94059\" class=\"wp-image-94059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mitch-epstein-2-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana II<\/i>, 2005, Mitch Epstein, \u00a9 Black River Productions, Ltd. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co., New York<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_94057\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94057\" class=\"wp-image-94057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michael-light-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>\u201cRoma Hills\u201d Guard-Gated Homes Looking East; 3,000\u20138,000 sq feet, Henderson, NV<\/i>, 2012, Michael Light<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>These photos and others are collected with this note by Geoff Dyer in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onepercentshow.com\/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality<\/a><em>, edited by Myles Little.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Geoff Dyer\u2019s new book,\u00a0<\/em>White Sands<em>, is due out in May.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing inequality. Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I&#8217;d warmly recommend it. It\u2019s super luxurious and, right next door, there\u2019s a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps. 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