Steve McCurry

Una selección de las 75 mejores fotografías de Steve McCurry tomadas por todo el mundo que definen la capacidad de McCurry de captar momentos robados en muy diversas partes del mundo. Instantáneas únicas de las gentes de África, el Sudeste asiático y Europa capturadas por uno de los fotógrafos en color más célebres. Incluye imágenes de Mali, Yemen, Camboya, India, Sri Lanka, Afganistán, Francia y la antigua Yugoslavia Una extraordinaria variedad de fotografías en color de gran formato apaisado, todas ellas a doble página y acompañadas de una breve descripción

Desde un elefante que apoya su cabeza cariñosamente sobre el hombro de su amo hasta un perro sentado en la parte trasera de una bicicleta al que pasean por los escombros de Kabul sentado; estas imágenes de Steve McCurry cuentan miles de historias y cada una de ellas es una leccion conmovedora de humanidad. El legendario fotoperiodista...En Animals descubrimos una nueva faceta del famoso fotografo, que explora con perspicacia la compleja relacion de los animales con los humanos y el medio ambiente.La ternura abunda, especialmente en escenas de perros callejeros que duermen apaciblemente junto a una persona. Pero tambien hay una especie de soledad esencial, visible en animales que no pertenecen a nadie y que deambulan por la vida sin otra cosa que sus instintos de supervivencia como guia. Ante nosotros transitan camellos atrapados en el fuego cruzado durante la primera guerra del Golfo; un pastor del norte de Pakistan que alimenta con delicadeza a sus cabras; perros acicalados en Beverly Hills; carreras de caballos en una azotea de Hong Kong; elefantes en Tailandia, y mas imagenes seleccionadas por McCurry de sus extensos archivos.El objetivo de McCurry desvela su aprecio por la belleza y dignidad silenciosa de todas las criaturas. Esta coleccion caleidoscopica es un hermoso cuaderno de viaje y un conmovedor homenaje a las criaturas con las que compartimos nuestro planeta.Tambien disponible en dos Ediciones de Arte firmadas por Steve McCurryUna leccion conmovedora de humanidad.Sorprendente e impactante, el album es una vision amorosa de como el planeta necesita de esta reconciliacion (entre hombres y animales) para garantizar su supervivencia ante el cambio climatico.Las imagenes mas potentes de la naturaleza se convierten en pequeñas grandes historias bajo la mirada de Steve McCurry. El fotoperiodista americano convierte este libro en un homenaje visual a las criaturas con las que compartimos el planeta.Un ensayo visual acerca de la relacion entre hombres y animales, ideal para abrir la reflexion sobre como los entendemos, los tratamos y los extinguimos.Ahora sabemos que la mirada de McCurry no solo se dirigia hacia los humanos y la manera en como estos se comportaban, sino tambien a los animales que los acompañabanEs el tema principal de las fotografias de su nuevo libro, una vision unica en la obra del americano que ofrece una vision singular sobre como la humanidad interactua con los animales.Steve McCurry intenta poner en palabras su pasion por los animales la cual lo ha llevado a descubrir en su archivo personal un sinfin de fotografias de hombres y animales por el mundo, llevandolo a organizarlas para editar Animals, el libro que lanza con TASCHEN.

* 100 imágenes inéditas del gran fotógrafo estadounidense Steve McCurry, quien cuenta con una extraordinaria capacidad de captar el alma de las personas mientras estas llevan a cabo actividades sencillas. * Fotografias de todos los rincones del mundo, que revelan la diversidad humana y que muestran al ser humano detras de la imagen, lo que incita a restaurar la humanidad en cada uno de nosotros. * Un libro imprescindible que descubre algunas de las perlas ocultas de este gran fotografo. Durante mas de cuatro decadas, Steve McCurry ha sido una de las figuras mas emblematicas de la fotografia contemporanea. Nacido en Filadelfia, McCurry estudio cinematografia en la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania, antes de trabajar para un diario. Al cabo de dos años, realizo el primero de muchos viajes a la India. Un viaje avituallado con poco mas que un bolso con ropa y carretes, Steve cruzo el subcontinente y exploro el pais con su camara. Tras varios meses de viaje, cruzo la frontera hacia Pakistan. En una pequeña aldea, conocio a un grupo de refugiados de Afganistan, quienes lo introdujeron de contrabando a traves de la frontera hacia su pais, justo cuando la invasion rusa cerraba el territorio a los periodistas occidentales. Con vestimenta tradicional, barba y rasgos desgastados por el clima tras los meses de convivenci...

A carefully selected portfolio of Steve McCurry's most striking photographs from a vast and exceptional body of work. Following the success of the hardback edition - now out of print - this new paperback edition makes McCurry's work available to a new audience of readers. Features the striking images that exemplify McCurry's unique ability to depict the 'unguarded moments' of people from all corners of the globe. Presents 75 large-format vivid and evocative images. Steve McCurry is one of Phaidon's bestselling authors and one of the most admired documentary photographers working today.

Nueva edición ampliada y actualizada del clásico de 1999. Incluye 70 nuevas fotografías que convierten a este libro en el más amplio estudio de los retratos de McCurry • Incluye el mundialmente famo

Now in paperback, a selection of the very best of McCurry's powerful portraits from South and Southeast Asia.This portfolio contains a selection of the best and most poignant portraits by Steve McCurry, a photographer known and loved the world over for his beautiful and enduring images of the landscapes and people of South and Southeast Asia. The collection includes iconic as well as lesser-known portraits of children, monks, pilgrims, and travellers that McCurry has encountered on his journeys throughout Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, and Tibet.

La retrospectiva definitiva del trabajo de Steve McCurry en Afganistán. Marcado por profundas divisiones tribales, étnicas y religiosas, Khurasan, como los afganos han llamado a su tierra durante los dos ultimos milenios, solo ha tenido unas pocas horas de unidad politica. McCurry ha seleccionado mas de 140 impactantes imagenes fruto de sus...Afganistan ha sido durante mucho tiempo un pais sumido en rivalidades tribales, guerras coloniales y conflictos geopoliticos. Los afganos siempre han llamado a sus montañasla tierra de la rebelion, una tierra que no ha sido ocupada con exito desde los tiempos de Alejandro Magno. Aunque los invasorespersas, arabes, magoles, sikhs, britanicos, rusosfracasaran, un paseo por los bazares de Kabul da testimonio de su legado. En los habitantes de Afganistan se encuentran y entremezclan los genes de innumerables razas.Las fisuras de la sociedad afgana son profundas: el cisma entre sunitas y chiitas, la violencia entre clanes y tribus y las luchas y rivalidades de sangre dentro de los diferentes linajes. Sin embargo, en medio del caos y los conflictos arraigados nacen estas imagenes de una belleza sobrecogedora.En esta retrospectiva definitiva de su trabajo en Afganistan, Steve McCurry ha seleccionado mas de 140 impactantes imagenes que presentan un pueblo herido y orgulloso, desde el desierto de Kandahar hasta las calles de Kabul y los remotos rios de Nuristan. Durante casi cuarenta años, McCurry viajo al pais regularmente y documento la vida de sus habitantes con una humanidad inusitada y cautivadora. Su impactante retrato de 1984, Niña afgana, ha ocupado portadas de revistas de todo el mundo. Digna y elegante a partes iguales, su presencia sigue fascinando. Al igual que sucede en gran parte del trabajo de McCurry, la imagen tiene una calidad intemporal y pictorica totalmente ajena al telon de fondo de la tormentosa region en la que fue tomada.McCurry ha vivido expuesto a los peligros que son parte inevitable de la vida de aquellos fotografos que siempre estan en movimiento explorando mundo. A menudo se ha aventurado en territorio hostil; por lo general, asumiendo un enorme riesgo: en su primer viaje a Afganistan, en 1979, se vistio con ropas afganas para cruzar ilegalmente la frontera con Pakistan. El fotografo haria muchas veces ese viaje a una tierra traicionera e impredecible con la presencia consecutiva o simultanea de muyahidines, rusos o talibanes. Muchos otros han seguido sus pasos, pero ninguno ha vuelto con un trabajo tan impecable.

IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNTAINS is a new collection of sublime portraits, landscapes, and street photography taken by Steve McCurry over the last 27 years. Children and shepherds, warriors and laborers are presented alongside striking views of sandstone cities, mountainous landscapes, and ancient temples. Evocative and timeless, these lyrical images capture the enduring spirit, grandeur, and beauty of the land that lies at the foot of the Hindu Kush. McCurry''s photographs capture human experience and transcend boundaries of language and culture. A new portfolio from Steve McCurry containing many previously unpublished photographs of Afghanistan and its people. The images collected here not only document the hardships faced by a nation so damaged by conflict, but also captures the great and unique beauty of this divided country Portraits of opium smokers and children, shepherds and Mujahadeen are presented alongside striking views of sandstone cities and shanty-towns, mountainous landscapes and ancient temples McCurry is one of the most admired and well-represented photojournalists working today and this book will be a widely sought-after addition to his popular body of work

The title of this book is a phrase that Steve McCurry uses a lot when talking about his work - he is always trying to capture those ''unguarded moments'' when people are at their most unselfconscious and natural. McCurry takes photographs all over the world, for National Geographic magazine and his own projects, so this book includes the places, colours and forms of Yemen, Mali, Niger, Chad, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), France and the former Yugoslavia, among others. "The Unguarded Moment" is the same size as South Southeast, but apart from the wider range of countries and continents covered, another key difference between the two titles is that all the images in this new book are landscape format. In "The Unguarded Moment", people go about their everyday business in extraordinary circumstances and settings, like the young tea vendor wading through the waist-deep monsoon waters in India, the fishermen casting their nets in the Niger river in Mali''s Sahel Desert and the boy working in a candy factory in Kabul, Afghanistan. This book includes striking portraits of a Tuareg woman in Mali, an intense you ng gypsy boy in Marseille, France and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma. There are children paying close attention to their teachers in school rooms in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, as well as five young monks happily playing with computer games at a monastery in India, just like any other boys their age would.

• McCurry is one of the most admired and widely popular photographers working today • The most beautiful of Steve McCurry's photographs from around the world, including iconic images from Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe • Includes his most famous photographs, such as the green-eyed Afghan Girl as well as images from the streets of India, the temples of Angkor in Cambodia and the Buddhist monasteries of Tibet • A specially-bound large-format book, available in a strictly limited edition is signed by the photographer, presented in a slipcase and contains an exclusive print, specially made for this edition.

-Steve McCurry Untold es el primer libro que nos ofrece una visión del método de trabajo de Steve McCurry, uno de los más grandes y temerarios creadores de imágenes de nuestros tiempo -Presentamos 14 de las mejores series de McCurry realizadas en los ulti

"Una nueva colección de fotografías del gran Steve McCurry Contiene fotografías inéditas tomadas cuando realizaba trabajos comisionados en cafetales a lo largo y ancho del mundo. De las laderas de los Andes a las pendientes de Kilimanjaro, imagenes de vibrante color documentan la realidad de la vida de los trabajadores en los cafetales del mundo. Las fotografias, tanto retratos de niños y trabajadores asi como maravillosos paisajes, han ido tomadas en Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Etiopia, Tanzania, India y Vietnam "

This new portfolio of emotive and beautiful work features 150 previously unpublished photos, taken across the Indian subcontinent, along with images that have become known across the globe.Reproduced in a large format with captions, and an introductory essay, India 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 at dawn to the flower markets of Kashmir and the streets of Old Delhi.

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the worlds most impressive monuments. Over one hundred of his images of the site are collected in this stunning book, which documents a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks. Angkor was the capital of the Khmer rulers from the end of the ninth century until the mid-fifteenth. Each built a state temple at the capital, surrounded by walls, moats and embankments laid out in accordance with cosmological precepts. Designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO, the temples attract tourists, archaeologists and art historians, and are also a pilgrimage destination for Buddhist monks. McCurry first visited Angkor on assignment for National Geographic magazine, for whom he has photographed all over the world. He has made many return visits, capturing a sublime portrait of the buildings, sculpture and people of Angkor. Winner of numerous honours, including first prize in the World Press awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, McCurry has previously published Portraits and South Southeast (both with Phaidon). The photographs are accompanied by an informative introduction on the history and meaning of Angkor by John Guy, a leading authority on the cultural history of Southeast Asia. Guy is curator of Indian and Southeast Asian sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Consultant to UNESCO on historical monuments in Southeast Asia.

"New York, September 11, 2001: Magnum Remembers" is the first book to document this unprecedented and tragic event that has truly altered the future of the world. From the moment of impact and the collapse of the Twin Towers to the rescue efforts at Ground Zero, the premier photojournalists of Magnum offer a compelling visual account. Also included are some of the most beloved photos of the WTC before the event. By now, the story of September 11 has been burned into our collective memory, but few have seen New York from the perspective of Magnum photographers. Eleven members of the legendary photo agency immediately dispersed from their monthly meeting in New York as the events unfolded to document the incomprehensible. Their photographs, by turns haunting, surreal, and breathtaking, are collected together in "New York September 11, by Magnum Photographers," compellingly presented in this high-quality edition from powerHouse Books. From their various vantage points we are transported to Ground Zero to witness the destruction of the World Trade Center, the buildings'' implosion which sent thousands fleeing through the streets from debris, only to return to the scene in quiet observation and respect for the rescue workers whose jobs had only begun -- and of the mourners who had been gathering struck with grief. Magnum photographers responding on September 11 include Steve McCurry, Susan Meiselas, Larry Towell, Gilles Peress, Thomas Hoepker, Alex Webb, Paul Fusco, Eli Reed, David Alan Harvey, Bruce Gilden, and Chien-Chi Chang. As a tribute to the World Trade Center, "New York September 11, By Magnum Photographers" also includes some of the most beloved photographs of the Twin Towers taken by Magnum over the last several decades by Bruce Davidson, Dennis Stock, Burt Glinn, Hiroji Kubota, Josef Koudelka, Richard Kalvar and Raymond Depardon.

Tibet has suffered extreme political turmoil and upheaval over the last fifty odd years. Occupied in 1950, Red Guards destroyed thousands of official buildings and holy places during the Cultural Revolution and religious freedom and traditional education is still severely under threat. Due to the strength of the Tibetan`s faith in Buddha and the Dalai Lama and against the odds many buildings have been reconstructed and their devotion and belief have remained extraordinarily strong. Buddhism permeates every part of a Tibetan`s life, whether they are living in Tibet or are part of the hundreds of thousands that live away from their homeland, in Nepal, India or the United States. The Path to Buddha is divided into five parts, with two main chapters devoted to the religious and lay Buddhists on their pilgrimages to holy sites. We see the monks in animated discussion, meditation and prayer and follow the devout believers on their arduous journeys to prayer. These two main chapters are interspersed with sections of portraits of this proud and dignified people whose own innate sense of style and fashion can be seen in the way they dress and adorn themselves.