Peter Menzel

Biography

Peter Menzel is a photojournalist in Napa Valley, California, and the author of several award-winning books, including Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Ten Speed, 2005) and Material World (Sierra Club, 1994). His photographs have been published in Le Figaro, Der Speigel, Focus, El Pais, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, and Time, and have received numerous World Press and Picture of the Year awards.

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ESSAYS / Spring 2015

Napa Valley and the Jeffersonian Ideal

By James Conaway ,  Photography by Peter Menzel

Jefferson’s life, writings, and aesthetics inspire in his spiritual descendants, real and feigned, as many contradictions as virtues. This valley may represent the apotheosis of the American family farm, with what is one of the most...