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Portraits (Hardback)
$17.08 - Save $5.87 25% off - RRP $22.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for PortraitsIn 1985, Magnum photographer Steve McCurry was responsible for the photograph of an Afghan girl which became a celebrated and well-known portrait. This collection features other faces that the artist has captured on his travels around the world, including unstylized street portraits and snapshots.
Full description- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
- Published: 27 May 1999
- Format: Hardback 236 pages
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- Categories: Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Individual Photographers | Photographs: Portraits
- ISBN 13: 9780714838397 ISBN 10: 071483839X
- Sales rank: 27,440
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Full description for Portraits
Magnum photographer Steve McCurry never set out to take portraits. Critically acclaimed and recognized internationally for his classic reportage, over the last 20 years he has worked for the "National Geographic" and other publications on numerous assignments: along the Afghan border, in Baghdad, Beirut and the Sahel. McCurry's coverage of the monsoon won first prize in the World Press Awards, and was part of his portfolio when he was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1984. In 1985, McCurry photographed an Afghan girl for the "National Geographic". The intensity of the subject's eyes and her compelling gaze made this one of contemporary photography's most celebrated and best-known portraits. McCurry is now equally famous for his other portrayals of memorable faces that he has encountered while travelling throughout the world. Compelling, unforgettable and moving, McCurry's images are unique street portraits: unstylized and unposed snapshots of people that reveal the universality of human emotion.
