Steve McCurry Curated

Of all the hardships a person had to face,
none was more punishing than the
simple act of waiting.

– Khaled Hosseini

Often the act of waiting is anything but simple.
Many people hate to wait because they are
waiting to do something, or to go somewhere.

Waiting doesn’t seem like an act, but the lack of action;
however, the decision to be patient and
willing to wait is an act of courage and perseverance.

A person who is a master of patience is a
master of everything else.

– George Savile

Endurance is patience concentrated.

– Thomas Carlyle

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

– St. Augustine

Come what may, all bad fortune is to
be conquered by endurance.

– Virgil

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

– French Proverb

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POSTERS

Poster Sales fund ImagineAsia’s initiatives in Afghanistan.

Please use promotional code – POSTER10 for 10% off poster orders through the end of 2023!
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EXHIBITIONS

STEVE McCURRY

T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı
Sur/Diyarbakır, Turkey

Sat, Oct 14, 2023  Sun, Dec 31, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 –  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023  – Sat, Jan 20, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 24, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life

-Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service,
and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

-Leo Tolstoy

Shared joy is a double joy

-Swedish Proverb

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationships, home…it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.

-Chuck Palahniuk

To get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.

-Mark Twain

Joy is looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

-Albert Einstein

Let a joy keep you.
Reach your hands and take it when it runs by.

-Carl Sandburg

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.

-Emily Dickinson

Joy is not in things;
it is in us.

-Richard Wagner

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

Publication Dates –

Italy – October 10, 2023

France – October 20, 2023

Germany – October 25, 2023

United Kingdom – November 1, 2023

United States – February, 20, 2024

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
(Group Show)

The Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, California, USA

Sat, Oct 7, 2023  Sun, Jan 14, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı
Sur/Diyarbakır, Turkey

Sat, Oct 14, 2023  Sun, Dec 31, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023  Sat, Jan 20, 2024

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Children

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 24, 2023  Sun, Mar 10, 2024

Doors and windows

Cherish these passages, old and new,
Windows to dreams, doors to more,
In their presence, our spirits explore.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
– Alice Munro

“I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all…”
–  Jonathan Miller

For doors
Are both frame and monument
To our spent time,
And too little
Has been said
Of our coming through and leaving by them.
– Charles Tomlinson

“A short story is what you see when you
look out of the window.”
-Mavis Gallant

“I sit at my window gazing the
world passes by, nods to me, and is gone.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“There’s a world out there.
Open a window, and it’s there.”
– Robin Williams

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

Publication Dates –

Italy – October 10, 2023

France – October 20, 2023

Germany – October 25, 2023

United Kingdom – November 1, 2023

United States – February, 20, 2024

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
(Group Show)

The Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, California, USA

Sat, Oct 7, 2023  Sun, Jan 14, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı
Sur/Diyarbakır, Turkey

Sat, Oct 14, 2023  Sun, Dec 31, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023  Sat, Jan 20, 2024

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron.
How lovely yellow is!

– Vincent Van Gogh

In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white,
yellow shouts: Look at me. I’m happy!

– Joy Sewing

We find from experience that yellow excites a
warm and agreeable impression.
The eye is gladdened, the heart
expanded and cheered, a glow seems at
once to breathe toward us.

– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

– Josef Albers

White is too brilliant to be seen, so
yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that
pure light has not only brightness but
emotional resonance and depth.

– Richard Grossinger

When you wear yellow you just have to go for it.

– Mobolaji Dawodu

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot,
others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

– Pablo Picasso

The sound of colors is so definite that it would
be hard to find anyone who would express
bright yellow with base notes, or
dark lake with the treble.

– Wassily Kandinsky

Yellow is psychologically the happiest color has been shown to energize people and relieve depression. Yellow stimulates mental processes and the nervous system, activates memory, and encourages communication.

– George Mason University
Learning Module

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

Publication Dates –

Italy – October 10, 2023

France – October 20, 2023

Germany – October 25, 2023

United Kingdom – November 1, 2023

United States – February, 20, 2024

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
(Group Show)

The Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, California, USA

Sat, Oct 7, 2023  Sun, Jan 14, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı
Sur/Diyarbakır, Turkey

Sat, Oct 14, 2023  Sun, Dec 31, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023  Sat, Jan 20, 2024

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

– Wendell Berry

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

– Mary Oliver

True strength lies in submission which
permits one to dedicate his life,
through devotion,
to something beyond himself.

– Henry Miller

True devotion and commitment are never made with the mind. These qualities, which allow us to expand, to grow, and to bloom into our potential, are developed through the heart and the spirit.

– Jamie Sams

For the person who is religiously or spiritually inclined, work even becomes a vehicle for devotion, a way of utilizing one’s gifts and talents to serve others.

– Marsha Sinetar

The heart can think of no devotion

Greater than being shore to the ocean-

Holding the curve of one position,

Counting an endless repetition.

– Robert Frost

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

Publication Dates –

Italy – October 10, 2023

France – October 20, 2023

Germany – October 25, 2023

United Kingdom – November 1, 2023

United States – February, 20, 2024

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
(Group Show)

The Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, California, USA

Sat, Oct 7, 2023  Sun, Jan 14, 2024

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THE TRUFFLE MUSEUM OF ALBA

International Alba White Truffle Fair
Alba, Italy

Saturday, October 14, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

Shadow owes its birth to light.

– John Gay

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain,
and see even here, upon a winter’s day,
how beautiful the shadows are.
  Alas!  It is the nature of their kind to be so.
The loveliest things in life are but shadows,
and they come and go, and change and fade away…
– Charles Dickens

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the
pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which
that thing provides.
– Junichiro Tanizaki

We are but dust and shadow.
– Horace

In the city’s neon glow,
A silhouette silently watches and waits
to see the secrets of the nightly show.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
– J.R. R. Tolkien

The silhouette says a lot with very little information,
but that’s also what the stereotype does.
– Kara Walker

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it. 
The tree is the real thing.
– Abraham Lincoln

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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EXHIBITIONS

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CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime.
Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or
beauty, are all sublime.

– John Ruskin

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

– Eleanor Catton

Friendship is a serious affection;
the most sublime of all affections,
because it is founded on principle,
and cemented by time.

– Mary Wollstonecraft

For most of us, there is only the unattended moment, the moment in and out of time, the distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, the wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning, or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music, while the music lasts.

– T.S. Eliot

What are the scenes of nature that elevate the mind
and produce the sublime sensation?
…the hoary mountain, the solitary lake,
the aged forest and torrent falling over rocks.

– Hugh Blair, lecture notes from 1783

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

– Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

QUESTION:
What sublime places have you visited?
Please let us know in the comments.

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EXHIBITIONS

CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023  Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

The gifts of earth, in autumn,
Are fruits of labor bold;
The faithful sower reaps
In harvest time his gold.
It twines the wreath of gladness
Around that son of earth.
As he turns from care and sadness,
To his joyous household hearth!

– Charles William Butler

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants
seeds in the Spring, who reaps a
harvest in the Autumn.

– B. C. Forbes

We reap and we sow,
an emergence of pleasure.
The harvest begins.

– Upon Learning, by Melissa Schwartz

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

– William Blake

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

– James Allen

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

– William Blake

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An Important Message from Steve McCurry

“I can think of few more extraordinary humanitarian
organizations than the EMERGENCY
hospitals in Afghanistan which have
operated continuously throughout the
turbulence of the past few years.
When many fled the country, Emergency
doubled down on their commitment to care
for Afghans as they have since 1999.”
– Steve McCurry

We have teamed up with Ishkar to raise
funds by selling the print below at a special,
one-time price to show
Afghanistan we have not forgotten.
More information: at http://www.ishkar.com

All profits from the print sale will go to EMERGENCY’S
work in Afghanistan.
https://en.emergency.it/

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EXHIBITIONS

CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023  Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023