Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures by Bonnie McCurry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Excellent expose on the life & times & photography of one of the world's most eminent photographers, Steve McCurry. Written by his sister--who is also his business partner--this beautifully packaged volumed gives one an inside picture into what makes McCurry tick--and on how his career developed over the years since he took off for 2 years on a photographic journey of India. One of his earlier focuses turned out to be Afghanistan and the Afghan Mujahedin, who were at that time (1980s) fighting a David-Goliath battle against the Afghan Communist government & its Soviet Union backer--or, maybe more correctly, the Soviet Union and its puppet Afghan Communist government. Never quite as anachronistic a name/concept = Afghan & Communist. That was doomed to die from the beginning. McCurry's beautiful, elegant, charged photographs are iconic and always expressively packed with feeling & emotions--revealing hints of a greater story going on. This huge & heavy book was a loving gift from my wonderful wife--who secretly carted it across the world to me.


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