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Untold

by Steve McCurry

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The stories and field materials behind Steve McCurry’s photographs

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The stories and field materials behind Steve McCurry’s photographs

Untold pairs Steve McCurry’s photographs with the circumstances surrounding their making, drawing on his firsthand accounts of assignments for National Geographic and elsewhere. The book revisits images across a wide range of subjects while bringing together material from McCurry’s private archive: personal snapshots, journal extracts, maps, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera. It also includes commissioned essays and addresses his reunion with the subject of the photograph known as “Afghan Girl.” In this compact paperback edition, the emphasis falls on photography as both image-making and lived record—travel, reporting, and the documents that remain around a finished photograph.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of Steve McCurry’s photography
  • Readers interested in documentary photography and photojournalism
  • Anyone curious about the background and process behind well-known photographs

Themes

Documentary photographyPhotojournalismTravel and assignment workPhotography archivesStories behind images

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Book overview

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.
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