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Diaphanous Saris, India, 1996

A washerwoman hangs diaphanous saris to dry on the mortared walls of a house in India. India's enormous labor pool allows even middle-class households there to employ home help, including servants, cooks, and washerwomen.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Quest for Color," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Cary Wolinsky

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