A young village boy from Nuristan, or «The Land of Light,» in Northern Afghanistan. The region gained its name after being conquered by the kings of Afghanistan and then converted them to Islam in the 19th Century. ??NOTE: AFGHN-10222 has most recently been published with the date 1992, but both 1990 and 1992 have been used previously.??Kamdesh, Afghanistan, 1992.??CAPTION: Village Boy. Kamdesh, Nuristan, Afghanistan, 1992.??Village boy, Kamdesh, 1992. – In the Shadow of Mountains??Boy in Nuristan, Afghanistan, 1990.??Nuristan, Afghanistan, 1990 -Portraits.??Village Boy, Kamdesh, Nuristan, Afghanistan, 1992 (Looking East, 72) ??IG: I took this picture of a young village boy in the remote mountainous province of Nuristan, or «The Land of Light,» in Northern Afghanistan.?02/03/2016???MAX PRINT SIZE: 30×40??NYC89038, (MCS1990011K001)??final print_milan?Unguarded Moment_Book?In the Shadow of Mountains_Book?Looking East_Book?Portraits_Book?PORTRAITS_book?Afghanistan_book ?PORTRAITS_APP?final print_Birmingham?final print_Zurich?Fine Art Print?retouched_Sonny Fabbri, Sam Wallander 04/22/2018Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, 1996, INDIA-10233. Three men wait on blue steps.??»It is a hot afternoon in the Old Quarter, the Brahman section of Jodhpur. Three city workmen wait for their afternoon tea, delivered each day by a street vendor. McCurry discovers these wonderful juxtapositions of colour, shapes and planes during his ‘wanderings’, long walks during which he focuses attention on the here and now, being fully open to what each moment brings. Here, the red jumps out of the blue as if in an abstract painting, yet remains centered within the lives of these three men, patiently awaiting their tea.» – Phaidon 55??Magnum Photos, NYC5911, MCS1996002K145??Phaidon, Iconic Images, final book_iconic, page 13.??On the edge of the Thar Desert is Jodhpur, once the capital of a princely state. Its medieval quarter, surrounded by a ten-kilometer wall, is a maze of alleyways, often only wide enough for a man or a cow to pass. There are no cars or motorcycles, only vendors hawking their wares on foot. The old city is blue. Local guides say that the blue wash of the houses originally indicated the homes of the upper-caste Brahmins, custodians of holy places and the written word. Others contradict this, saying buildings used to be painted white, before the discovery that copper sulfate added to the white-lime-wash- turning it blue- deterred nesting termites. It caught on. Varieties of blue, from royal blue to aquamarine, form the backdrop for a theatre of colour played out its streets, defying the parched orange of the surrounding desert. McCurry, Steve. (2000). South SouthEast. London: Phaidon Press Limited., 139??At the heart of the old city of Jodhpur is the medieval quarter. The area is made up of a network of passageways, where the walls are all painted blue. There McCurry happened upon these three workers taking a break from their labours.??South Southeast_Book?Steve Mccurry_Book?Iconic_Book?Milan_Exhibit_’09??Retouched_Sonny Fabbri 08/04/2016
by CRISTINA FONTANELLI – In Italia, fra le imperdibili iniziative culturali dedicate ai maestri della fotografia contemporanea segnaliamo la mostra «Steve McCurry. Orizzonti lontani». In corso a Parma, questo evento espositivo allestito a Palazzo Pigorini (primo e secondo piano), e’ curato da Biba Giachetti, autorevole esperta dell’opera del grande fotografo. Aperta al pubblico fino al prossimo 12 Aprile 2026, la mostra presenta interessanti capolavori fotografici, proponendo ai visitatori emblematiche immagini di forte impatto visivo; centinaia di scatti dai quali emergono la genialita’ e l’inconfondibile estro creativo di questo vero e proprio globe trotter della fotografia mondiale del nostro tempo. Viaggiatore instancabile, Mc Curry ha scelto di fare del movimento una vera e propria filosofia esistenziale. In proposito, egli stesso ebbe a dichiarare «il solo fatto di viaggiare e conoscere culture diverse, mi da grande gioia e carica inesauribile». Come e’ noto, nel corso della sua strepitosa carriera, viaggiando in molti paesi del mondo, Steve McCurry e’ riuscito a realizzare innumerevoli interessanti reportages, immortalando come pochi varie popolazioni ed etnie del Sud-Est Asiatico, Afghanistan, Cina, Giappone, Sud America, ecc. Apprezzato e riconosciuto artisticamente in tutto il mondo per la sua maestria di fotografo e di geniale ritrattista, Steve Mc Curry ha collaborato con varie prestigiose riviste di livello internazionale : National Geographic, Time, Life, solo per citarne alcune. Agli interessati segnaliamo che Il Catalogo della mostra fotografica dedicata a Steve Mc Curry e’ stato prodotto da Artika, in collaborazione con Orion 57 e Comune di Parma. Articolo by Cristina Fontanelli Journalist, Critica d’Arte, Fotografa
