Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714864624
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Steve McCurry's iconic images have made him one of the world's most popular photographers working today. Now, for the first time, he shares the stories behind stunning images taken from around the world throughout his extensive career. In the finest documentary tradition, Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs delves into McCurry's personal archive to reveal never-before-seen ephemera, including journals, portraits, maps, and beautifully reproduced snapshots from various assignments. The book is organized into 14 photo stories, each brought to life by narrative text and over 100 lavish, full-color photo plates. Together, these fascinating documents create a living biography of one of photography's greatest legends.

Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714877341
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the career of the legendary photographer - now in a new, compact format Now in paperback and re-sized for easy reading, Steve McCurry Untold is the only book to tell the fascinating stories behind McCurry's most iconic photographs. It explores the travels, methods, and magic that gave birth to his evocative images, delving deep into the true stories behind McCurry's most important assignments for National Geographic and beyond - including his reunion with the now-legendary 'Afghan Girl'. Each story includes McCurry's first-hand account alongside specially commissioned essays, ephemera, and personal photographs from his private archive. Featuring beautiful reproductions of McCurry's photographs spanning a broad range of themes and subjects and ephemera such as snapshots, journal extracts, maps, and newspaper clippings, Steve McCurry Untold is a living biography of one of the most imaginative documentary photographers working today. More than 50,000 copies of the hardback edition sold worldwide, it was translated into seven languages and became an international bestseller.

Portraits

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
A collection of unposed and engaging portraits from around the world.

Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs

Author:
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714865133
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Presents a retrospective collection of the photographer's work over the past thirty years.

William Albert Allard, Five Decades

Author: William Albert Allard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426206372
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This book contains 50 years of photography by the author, a National Geographic photographer. He was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature. His work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Steve McCurry: Looking East

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
A selection of striking portraits by award-winning photographer Steve McCurry.

Steve Mccurry in Search of Elsewhere

Author: Steven McCurry
Publisher: Laurence King
ISBN: 9781786279170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A unique collection of previously unseen images spanning Steve McCurry's extraordinary career. Steve McCurry is known for creating some of the most iconic images of recent times and in this new collection, he shares previously unseen photographs from his incredibly rich archive. In Search of Elsewheretakes us across the globe and offers new perspectives on many of the locations that the photographer has already made famous - from India, Myanmar and Cuba, to Kashmir and the white-washed temples of the Himalayas. Each image is reproduced at large format and in remarkable detail and this new compilation reveals the incredible depth of his work. "I compare photography to food, air, and sleep... this creative energy, this impulse, is what gives us purpose, pleasure, joy, happiness and love."Steve McCurry Also available: Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures

India

Author:
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714869964
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
India explores the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings through the lens of Steve McCurry, one of the most admired photographers working today. As featured on cnn.com. This new portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, along with iconic photographs that are famous worldwide. Reproduced in a large format with captions, and an introductory essay, this book features a range of color pictures illustrating this most colorful of countries, capturing the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings: from the Ganesh festival on Chowpatty beach in Mumbai to the Kolkata railway station before dawn to the flower markets of Kashmir and the streets of Old Delhi. Following Phaidon's 2013 bestseller Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs, McCurry's India is a new selection of the photographer's beautiful and powerful images of India, a country he has photographed many times over the last thirty years. Other Phaidon titles by Steve McCurry, include Steve McCurry, The Iconic Photographs, Steve McCurry, Unguarded Moment and Steve McCurry: South Southeast.

Monsoon

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788187107118
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Steve McCurry: On Reading

Author: Steve McCurry
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714871295
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
A celebration of the timeless act of reading - as seen through the lens of one of the world's most beloved photographers Young or old, rich or poor, engaged in the sacred or the secular, people everywhere read. This homage to the beauty and seductiveness of reading brings together a collection of photographs taken by Steve McCurry over his nearly four decades of travel and is introduced by award-winning writer, Paul Theroux. McCurry's mesmerizing images of the universal human act of reading are an acknowledgement of - and a tribute to - the overwhelming power of the written word.