That girl’s eyes were forever etched in the collective imagination. The photographer Steve McCurry managed to capture that look as if Mona Lisa of the 20th century, but that image, published in the National Geographic, It is by no means the only iconic photograph that the photographer has achieved throughout his career.
Now, McCurry himself has carried out the selection of 40 snapshots, in search of his most representative works, to complete the volume called Capturing the Soula numbered and limited edition of 2,998 copies from the Artika Books publishing house.
The work is presented in a case, with the image of The Afghan Girlwhich reveals to us the two volumes of the work: the Art Bookwith the 40 original photographs accompanied by a phrase expressly written by McCurry on each of them, where he reflects on his more than 40 years of experience and every moment captured by your camera. In the Book of Studieswe find some of the most authoritative voices in the figure and career of the genius of the camera.
“The artist analyzes the 40 photographs of the work, one by one, with anecdotes and personal memoriesdiscovering the passage of time and its sensitivity, helping the viewer to better understand the moment in which each of the images were captured“says the publisher, in a limited edition, numbered and signed by Steve McCurry copy by copy.
The Afghan girl
The world-famous portrait celebrates 40 years of history in 2024, since it was in 1984, when McCurry found Sharbat Gula, the name of the girl portrayed, in the middle of the war in Afghanistan when he was only 12 years old.
