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“There’s a meditative aspect to it,” McCurry told Art Space. “When I’m walking around photographing, I get into a particular mindset where I become much more attuned to the world around me. It’s a joy to be alive, and maybe that’s what come through.”
Link: Simple Act of Waiting – The Photo Society
Often the act of waiting is anything but simple.
Many people hate to wait because they are waiting to do something,
get something, or go somewhere
Substantial exhibitions of the work of Nan Goldin, Massimo Vitali and Antonin Kratochvil are the major highlights, and the three artists will also talk about their work, with Goldin appearing in a unique conversation with Sally Mann. In addition the festival will feature “Master’s Talks” and exhibitions by Christopher Anderson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ashley Gilbertson, David Liitschwager, Steve McCurry, Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell, as well as a special exhibition of George Steinmetz photographs hung from trees in downtown Charlottesville.
Link: LOOK3 Preview: Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali Headline Fest Curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode
How ironic. Aghan-girl-on-the-cover-of-Nat-Geo photographer Steve McCurry and my-dslr-is-a-freaking-movie-camera photographer Vincent LaForet post help wanted ads 1 day apart. Old schooler McCurry goes for the craigslist classified ad seeking an intern wh
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/04/29/photographers-hiring-help-new-vs-old-school/
How ironic. Aghan-girl-on-the-cover-of-Nat-Geo photographer Steve McCurry and my-dslr-is-a-freaking-movie-camera photographer Vincent LaForet post help wanted ads 1 day apart.
A celebrated photographer makes a passage to India—and marks the end of an era.
via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro
McCurry—most famous for his National Geographic cover of an Afghan girl in a refugee camp, shot on Kodachrome—loaded his Nikon F6 with the 36-exposure spool and headed east, intending to concentrate on visual artists like himself, relying on his typical mix of portraiture, photojournalism, and street photography.
Herewith, presented for the first time in their entirety, are the frames from that historic final roll,
Think of colour photography and your thoughts will soon turn to Steve McCurry, who shot many of his most iconic images on Kodachrome. So it seemed appropriate that, when Kodak produced the last ever roll of the film, it gave it to him. Rob Hastings interviews the Magnum photographer
Link: The last roll of Kodachrome – British Journal of Photography
US photographer Steve McCurry talks to Nosheen Iqbal about the art of blending in, Buddhism and why he’s shooting De Niro
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/steve-mccurry-photography
For the man behind one of the most widely recognised photographs in history, Steve McCurry has kept a low profile. Afghan Girl, taken in 1984, made the cover of National Geographic magazine the following year, and led to McCurry’s signing to the Magnum picture agency. It is a simple portrait distinguished by intense colour, the girl’s green eyes burning with dignity and despair. It is also, in McCurry’s view, far from his best shot.
In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry in Vietnam and Eli Reed in Peru
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