Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs

The bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the career of the legendary photographer – now in a new, compact formatNow 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.

Reviews of Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs

Praise for the hardback edition:"McCurry's lushly coloured, far flung reportage has made his work some of the most recognisable among that of Magnum photographers."–Telegraph"It makes you want to get out and see the world, camera in hand…"–Amateur Photographer"Steve McCurry Untold spans 30 years of McCurry's career and includes fascinating ephemera from his travels: diary entries, photos of him at work, and some of the 20-plus passports he's gone through over the decades… He manages to make the world seem enormous and quite small; exotic, and somehow familiar."–Time"Spread over some 250 pages are famous and lesser-known images, as well as anecdotes and shots of ephemera he gathered along the way, including letters and journal pages."–Wall Street Journal