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Summary: This is a book to give to the people who you love.
Review: Mehndi from New York said it well when she wrote that "each page is a window into the heart of humanity." I am ordering several for Christmas gifts. This week, I will be sharing the book with my 7th grade World Geography students because I think that it shows the connectivity of humanity and the beauty in all stages of the human condition more than anything else that I could present to them. Each portrait is memorable. The collection is powerful.
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Summary: Bravo, Steve!
Review: Once again Steve Mc Curry amazes me. His work is incomparable and truly unforgettable. He is clearly one of the best in the world. He is a photojournalist but his work is pure art.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: Portraits is an amazing glimpse into the souls of people all around the world. The photos - some of them humorous - most of them simply haunting are ones you will want to look at time and again.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: Portraits is an amazing glimpse into the souls of people all around the world. The photos - some of them humorous - most of them simply haunting are ones you will want to look at time and again.
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Summary: A great photographer captures the spirit of the human family
Review: Remember the book called The Family of Man? This work surpasses that book in many ways. It reminds one of the universality of the human condition in photographs that are art at its best. For afficionados of Steve McCurry, this is a feast. Bravo! Encore!
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Summary: An incredible gift
Review: Steve McCurry truly has a gift to capture the very heart and soul of the people he shows us with his photographs. I came away feeling like I somehow 'knew' each one, and after looking at them, just wanted to weep with the emotions that stirred within me. Essence lifts from his pictures, and I am impressed to display all of them, as they have certainly made indelible footprints on my very own heart and soul.
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Summary: If the human spirit could be photographed....
Review: Steve McCurry would do it, and I think he has in this portrait compilation. I really love this book. Its well worth the price you pay. I agree that it would make an excellent gift. Its funny, I keep it on my desk and am amused when my visitors pick it up and can't stop turning pages! These pictures speak to you. An avid 5 stars here!
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Summary: book of journey
Review: There are a lot to be said about this little handbook. For reason being there is nothing written on the pages except photographs. I don't want to use that line but, truly, a picture is worth a thousand words. One's own imagination is more intimate with one's self while looking at those miraculous photographs, than would when restricted with the words and passion of another. I also enjoyed the size of this little marvel; each picture is the size of a snap shot photo and delivers equal proportional faces that seems like, with the turning of each page, a remembrance of adventures thru out the world and me with my little photo hanger book. While surfing the web, I was fortunate to find a supplementary companion for Steve McCurry’s book of Portraits; it is a well-made web site that provides a sample of 48 imagines taken from the book. Along with a short bio of the author, video clip of varies shooting locations and year and location of which each photo presented was taken.
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Summary: Lots of pictures, but of poor print quality.
Review: There are many wonderful and insightful portraits in this collection. Sadly though, the publishers skimmed on the printing and left this book sadly wanting in quality. However, the photos show an impressive breadth of society. From a child monk in saffron leaning against a stoop in Angkor Wat to a machete weilding farmer in Philippines, McCurry lays before us the depth of humanity. For the low price of under [money], it is a good deal. But only three stars for the small postcard size pages and poor print quality.
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Summary: Haunting Photographs
Review: These portraits are among the most beautiful I have ever seen. McCurry's work stands as a testament to the almost divine spirit of humanity under any circumstance. Because many of the young subjects were photographed a decade or two before military conflict, their expressions are even more haunting. I highly recommend this book.
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