Steve McCurry: Adagio

Photography monograph for Leica Gallery
Essay by Pico Iyer

From Pico Iyer’s essay:
It’s so easy these days to see the world through screens: stripped of a third (a human) dimension, tidily boxed up and small enough to fit into one’s hand (or, more dangerous, one’s mind). We sit at home and watch the news and tell ourselves we can distinguish right from wrong, we’re “on top” of the situation in China or Afghanistan, we know so much more than our poor grandparents could ever have known....Again and again I meet images that could issue only from Steve McCurry; the sense of composition bears his signature as much as does the depth. Different collections have been made up of Steve’s portraits of faces, of religious images, of pictures taken in Asia, and a hundred more anthologies could be assembled from each year’s explorations. But this particular gathering shows how a humanist with a camera sustains his curiosity even well into his eighth decade.

12 x 9 inches
84 pages