[Leica] Steve McCurry India was Picture of the Year Controversy

[nod at bouncing.org (Philip Clarke)]

You might also like to look at the representation of different classes
he lists in his standard portfolio of India at Magnum

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.ViewBoxInsertion_VPage&R=2K7O3R1PLPLP&RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&CT=Album&SP=Album

or this lady

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxZoom_VPage&VBID=2K1HZOYYVSP8A&IT=ImageZoom01&PN=1&STM=T&DTTM=Image&SP=Search&IID=2S5RYD1W1BQI&SAKL=T&SGBT=T&DT=Image

before reducing his body of work to only documenting poverty. He's much
more "balanced" than that.

Philip.

Tina Manley wrote:
> At 05:40 PM 4/20/2009, you wrote:
>
>> The brief was to take pictures in Afghanistan of refugees, that makes
>> his work a success. I don't recall heim ever claiming that the images
>> he took were representative of international children.
>
> http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php
>
> "Most of my pictures are grounded in people.  I look for the unguarded
> moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a
> person's face.  I try to convey wat it is like to be that person, a
> person caught in a a broader landscape that I guess you'd call the
> human condition."
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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