Steve McCurry è uno dei più grandi maestri della fotografia del nostro secolo. Una sua mostra è stata allestita a Roma, al Macro, dal 3 Dicembre 2011 al 29 Aprile 2012. Un’Americana a Venezia, raccontandoci Mccurry, con la sua spontaneità, clearly and effectively, ci trasmette le sue emozioni. (RR)
A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet there are pictures that pique our curiosity and pose nearly as many questions as they do explanations. Images that have the power to do that are
what art is made of. Sometimes such images can make a sizeable dent in public awareness as well. For example, who has not seen the now-famous portrait of the young Afghan refugee with the piercing green eyes and wondered, quite spontaneously, who IS she? How old is she? Where is her home? What has her existence been like? To capture a moment in time and provoke such thoughtfulness is a special talent. Such is the talent of Steve McCurry whose work is currently on display in Rome until April 29. Born in Philadelphia in 1950, for the past thirty years McCurry has been travelling the globe in search of stirring images of sentient and insentient beings against myriad backdrops. His own criterion for a really great photo is one that is “unforgettable,” and his own strongest fount of inspiration was the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Although 
his first love was filmmaking, McCurry’s life as a travelling photographer began when he decided to go to India for two weeks and ended up staying for two years. By now, taking prize-winning photos is more than a job for McCurry—it’s an investment of his heart. When he works, McCurry admittedly seeks “emotional content”; he aims at the eyes and “waits patiently,” he says, “for the soul to come to the surface.” He says he tries to “convey what it is like to be that person”. Considered to be a master of color photography, McCurry’s more recent work includes a collection snapped with “the last roll” of Kodak film. Fortunately for McCurry, the digital camera was a great invention. A vast variety of his photos are readily available for viewing at his own beautiful website. Among them we find many photos taken in Italy, a location which McCurry still associates with “art, style and elegance”. The more we see of McCurry’s work, the more we become
aware of the intangible fruits of his long and successful career. He has noticed that when people are shown respect, they respond favorably to each other. Where respect is lacking, “things get ugly.” McCurry is convinced that despite cultural differences, we are all fundamentally the same. By the way, seventeen years after taking the acclaimed photo of the Afghan refugee girl, McCurry went back to search for her, not knowing her name or even which tribe she belonged to. Thanks to the help of an Afghan journalist, he managed to find her. She was a 29-year-old wife and mother. He photographed her again, this time with her holding up a copy of the National Geographic issue that had featured her face on its cover. We gather that McCurry then gave her and her husband a generous gift, which was only right, considering that she, a little sister on Spaceship Earth, had once let him photograph her soul. Her photos are also featured in the Rome show. Please visit stevemccurry.com as well as stevemccurryroma.it for more information and a pleasing experience. UN’AMERICANA A VENEZIA
A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet there are pictures that pique our curiosity and pose nearly as many questions as they do explanations. Images that have the power to do that are
what art is made of. Sometimes such images can make a sizeable dent in public awareness as well. For example, who has not seen the now-famous portrait of the young Afghan refugee with the piercing green eyes and wondered, quite spontaneously, who IS she? How old is she? Where is her home? What has her existence been like? To capture a moment in time and provoke such thoughtfulness is a special talent. Such is the talent of Steve McCurry whose work is currently on display in Rome until April 29. Born in Philadelphia in 1950, for the past thirty years McCurry has been travelling the globe in search of stirring images of sentient and insentient beings against myriad backdrops. His own criterion for a really great photo is one that is “unforgettable,” and his own strongest fount of inspiration was the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Although 
his first love was filmmaking, McCurry’s life as a travelling photographer began when he decided to go to India for two weeks and ended up staying for two years. By now, taking prize-winning photos is more than a job for McCurry—it’s an investment of his heart. When he works, McCurry admittedly seeks “emotional content”; he aims at the eyes and “waits patiently,” he says, “for the soul to come to the surface.” He says he tries to “convey what it is like to be that person”. Considered to be a master of color photography, McCurry’s more recent work includes a collection snapped with “the last roll” of Kodak film. Fortunately for McCurry, the digital camera was a great invention. A vast variety of his photos are readily available for viewing at his own beautiful website. Among them we find many photos taken in Italy, a location which McCurry still associates with “art, style and elegance”. The more we see of McCurry’s work, the more we become
aware of the intangible fruits of his long and successful career. He has noticed that when people are shown respect, they respond favorably to each other. Where respect is lacking, “things get ugly.” McCurry is convinced that despite cultural differences, we are all fundamentally the same. By the way, seventeen years after taking the acclaimed photo of the Afghan refugee girl, McCurry went back to search for her, not knowing her name or even which tribe she belonged to. Thanks to the help of an Afghan journalist, he managed to find her. She was a 29-year-old wife and mother. He photographed her again, this time with her holding up a copy of the National Geographic issue that had featured her face on its cover. We gather that McCurry then gave her and her husband a generous gift, which was only right, considering that she, a little sister on Spaceship Earth, had once let him photograph her soul. Her photos are also featured in the Rome show. Please visit stevemccurry.com as well as stevemccurryroma.it for more information and a pleasing experience. UN’AMERICANA A VENEZIA
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