donderdag, oktober 25, 2007
Nieuw boek Steve McCurry over Afghanistan
De Amerikaanse fotograaf Steve McCurry, vooral beroemd vanwege zijn foto van het Afghaanse meisje met de groene ogen, teert de laatste jaren meer op zijn roem dan dat hij met veel nieuw werk komt. Zo verschijnt er elk jaar tegen de kerst steevast een boek van hem met grotendeels eerder gepubliceerde foto's. Zijn laatste uitgave "In The Shadow Of Mountains" is een selectie van de foto's die hij de afgelopen 30 jaar maakte in Afghanistan, maar dan wel inclusief onbekend werk. De coverfoto komt u misschien alvast bekend voor, hij maakte die tijdens het filmen van de documentaire "Search for the Afghan girl".
Steve McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines and the Gulf war, but his continuing coverage of Afghanistan is perhaps his greatest achievement. It was with his first images of Afghanistan that McCurry established his reputation as a photojournalist. In 1979, disguised in native dress, McCurry crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan, shortly before Soviet troops invaded in support of the failing Marxist government. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes, images which would be published around the world as among the first to show the conflict there. His coverage won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise. Throughout his career McCurry has returned to Afghanistan time and time again - under different regimes and at times of civil unrest - to document the people, the landscape and the heritage of this troubled, yet captivating, country. Each image is accompanied by a brief text providing geographical and historical background.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 13:30
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