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Chris Mueller and his
New York visitor

When Chris Met Fred

Photographer Chris Mueller has had a few characters show up at his door in New York City. But
none quite like Fred.
Fred is a crash-test dummy-and not just any
crash-test dummy. He's a Hybrid-III adult male
model, with half of his vinyl flesh removed to
show off his sensor-packed steel skeleton. He
was in town to be photographed for this issue's
"Anatomy of a Crash-Test Dummy."
Fred, whose home is at the headquarters of
dummy maker Denton ATD, in Rochester Hills,
Mich., has been to trade shows all over the world.
He normally travels by truck, but he's also traveled
by car, sitting next to the driver, and once Denton
bought him a seat on a flight to Europe.
This was Fred's first trip to New York, and
he was delivered to Mueller in a refrigerator-size
crate. "It was giant," says Mueller, who has photographed airliners, racing cars, human brains,
and NASA engineers, but never dummies. How
to get the thing to his studio, 10 blocks north,
where the photo shoot was to take place?
"I opened the crate, put Fred on a hand truck,
and rolled down the street with him," he says.
"I covered him with a black canvas, and people
kept looking over, catching glimpses of Fred."
At the photo session Fred proved very easy
to work with. "He just listened and did what he
was told," says Mueller, who after the shoot was
off to an assignment in California. As for Fred,
he was ready to go home, back to his Hybrid-III
female companion, Frida.
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