![]() ![]() I cannot say with absolute certainty that McCurry has never staged a photo, but to start from the presumption of guilt is nearly libelous. ![]() The notion that he has spent a career setting up scenes to capture his iconic photos is a massive insult to a talented photographer who started his career at a local newspaper before traveling to Pakistan and sneaking into Afghanistan to cover the build up to the Soviet invasion. ![]() McCurry is an award-winning photojournalist represented by the heralded Magnum Photos. I object.įirst, let’s dismiss the notion that McCurry is staging photos. He offers instead the work of Ragubhir Singh whose gritty work is a stark contrast to the “boring” work of McCurry, suggesting that somehow the more edgy style is a more authentic view of the world. They are astonishingly boring.”Ĭole laments that the homogeneity of McCurry’s latest book, India, presents a “worldview” that by settling on “a notion of authenticity that edits out the present day, is not simply to present an alternative truth: It is to indulge in fantasy.” The pictures are staged or shot to look as if they were. In A Too Perfect Picture, he writes about McCurry’s photos: Since its launch, his column On Photography has illustrated his deep understanding of photographic history – not to mention he’s an award-winning writer with a PhD in Art History from Columbia. New York Times Magazine photography critic, Teju Cole, recently penned what could only be construed as a takedown of National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. ![]()
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