Of November 8, 2024 to March 23, 2025Caumont – Center d’Art invites us to discover the work of Steve McCurry like we've never seen before. Through a selection of photographs each one more spectacular than the otherthe institution explores the artist's fascination for elsewhere, for the universal, and for the human race. A unique exhibition, highlighting the poignant photos of the one who defines himself as a real “ visual storyteller ».
Steve McCurry, Rangoun, Birmanie (actuel Myanmar) 1994 © Steve McCurry, “in partnership with Orion57”, Curator Biba Giacchetti
When poetry is written with images
Steve McCurry a couvert the Iran-Iraq warthe Gulf Warfranks there border between Pakistan and Afghanistan during the war against the USSR, traveled all over the world in contact with populations directly impacted by armed conflicts. His photos have marked the collective imagination, like his famous portrait of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes. It is also this report in Afghanistan, for which he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1980, which ensured him a internationally renowned.
Steve McCurry, Rangoun, Birmanie (actuel Myanmar) 1994 © Steve McCurry, “in partnership with Orion57”, Curator Biba Giacchetti
However, the photographer does not is not limited to his work as a photojournalistquite the contrary. Throughout his immense career, he never ceased to immortalize everyday lifeto highlight everything that is extraordinary in the ordinary. Of the innocence of children facing the war adult resilience faced with the monsoon, he does not hesitate to travel the planet – and sometimes put one's life in danger – to deliver to us all the poetry in the world through images that, as the saying goes, are undoubtedly worth thousands of words.
All facets of humanity
As the rooms progress, the photos are revealedsome of which for the first time in Franceto show us the different ways in which humans inhabit the world. How they eat, move, study, pray or play. How they interact with each other or with the world around them. In his own way, Steve McCurry reveals to us all the faces of manto tell stories of joy, survival, curiosity and sometimes pain. A powerful visual testimony, which presents us the brutality of the world, but also its beauty.
Steve McCurry, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Inde, 1996 © Steve McCurry, “in partnership with Orion57”, Curator Biba Giacchetti
In total, these are more than 80 emblematic works of the photographer who awaits us, to constantly take us through the border between ancestral traditions and contemporary cultures. Through the faces, looks and bodies, we let ourselves be drawn into this symbolic journey to discover the population mondiale in all its depth. The unique opportunity to slip behind Steve McCurry's lensand discover his world complex and contrastingwhere humans evolve as a catalyst in the middle of the world.
Steve McCurry : Regards
Caumont – Art Center
3, rue Joseph-Cabassol – Aix-en-Provence
From November 8, 2024 to March 23, 2025
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