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Rhapsody in Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

– Robert Frost

I have found myself dwelling on the color blue and the way our planet’s elemental hue, the most symphonic of the colors, recurs throughout our literature as something larger than a mere chromatic phenomenon — a symbol, a state of being, a foothold to the most lyrical and transcendent heights of the imagination.

– Maria Popova

“Blue is light seen through a veil.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Blue is the typical heavenly color…
The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest…”

– Wasily Kandinski

“I saw in a blue haze all the world poured
flat and pale between the mountains.”

– Annie Dillard

“We love to contemplate blue,” Goethe wrote, “not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.”

Blue is the unspoken language of universality,
seamlessly weaving through the expanse of
sky and the depths of water.

“No water, no life. No blue, no green”

– Sylvia Earle

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E X H I B I T I O N S

STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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The Kingdom of Trees

Between heaven and earth, between mankind and the stars, lies the kingdom of trees; between that which gives us food, housing and work on the one hand and that which is incomprehensible
and unaccountable on the other.

–Trees in the History of Civilization

Trees are Sentinels
Guarding, Nurturing, Protecting
Bastions of Dignity
Breathing life
Providing shelter
Asking for nothing
Sacrificing everything

-K. Earle

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them,
can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach
undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-Hermann Hesse, Wandering

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary
than a beautiful, strong tree.

-H. Hesse, ibid

Trees, proud standing people
stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying
glorious attention, breathing light.
strength shelter timeless confidence
bending and firm comforting …

-Wallace Stevens

Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing in time to come.
How do we know? They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee that
singing will ever be.

-Wendell Berry

No wonder the hills and groves were
God’s first temples…

-John Muir

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire,
in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a
dancing tongue of flame
to warm the heart.

-Hal Borland

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

-John Muir

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E X H I B I T I O N S

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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The Power of Red

Red has always been my color
because red stands out.
Red is one of the strongest colors, its blood,
it has a power with the eye.
That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well…
In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.
– Keith Haring

Red is the greatest clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming
bored with the person you love.
– Diana Vreeland

Red is uplifting.
– J. Lewis

Red protects itself. No color is as territorial.
It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
~ Derek Jarman

When I haven’t any blue, I use red.
– Pablo Picasso

I love red so much,
I almost want to paint everything red.
– Alexander Calder

Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies.
In a way it’s inside out, red.
– Anish Kapoor

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
– Bill Blass

Red can communicate all sorts of messages.
Red symbolizes passion, action, energy, happiness,
authority, strength, and confidence…
– Adam Glassman
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E X H I B I T I O N S

ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Wed, Mar 27, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Portraits of Friendship

“Wherever we are, it is our friends
that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
– Gloria Naylor

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington

“What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”
– Nigerian Proverb

“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at
last a drop which makes it run over;
so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one
which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

“Faithful friends are hard to find.”
– William Shakespeare

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.
It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Poster Sales fund ImagineAsia’s initiatives in
Afghanistan and Ukraine.
https://www.stevemccurry.com/posters

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023 – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY, USA

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 Sat, Mar 9, 2024

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Times of Our Lives

“Time, which changes people,
does not alter the image we have of them.”
– Marcel Proust

“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Time has a wonderful way of showing
us what really matters.”
– Margaret Peters

Time is free, but it’s priceless.
You can’t own it, but you can use it.
You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.
– Harvey MacKay

“With endless time, nothing is special.
With no loss or sacrifice,
we can’t appreciate what we have.”
– Mitch Albom

“The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Time is a created thing.
To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say
‘I don’t want to.’”
– Lao Tzu

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023 – Sat, Jan 20, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023 – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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The Gift of Grandparents

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the
lives of little children.

-Alex Haley

A grandparent is a best friend, teacher, cheerleader, and counselor.

There is no grandfather who does not
adore his grandchild.

-Victor Hugo

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends, and
hardly ever our own grown children.

-Ruth Goode

The best place to be when you’re sad is a
grandparent’s lap.

Grandchildren are God’s way of
compensating us for
growing old.

-Mary H. Waldrip

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the
first grandchild.

-Welsh Proverb

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the
fullness of their grace.

-Christopher Morley

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A STATEMENT BY STEVE MCCURRY

“I can think of few greater humanitarian
organizations than the EMERGENCY
hospitals in Afghanistan which have
operated continuously throughout the
turbulence of the past few years.
When many fled the country, Emergency
doubled down on their commitment to care
for Afghans as they have since 1999.”
– Steve McCurry

Starting on August 15, we are teaming up with Ishkar to raise funds by selling the print below at a special, one-time price to show Afghanistan that we have not forgotten.
More information coming soon at http://www.ishkar.com

All profits from the print sale will go to EMERGENCY’S
work in Afghanistan.
https://en.emergency.it/

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay
Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000
Sydney, Australia

Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023

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STEVE McCURRY

Istanbul Sinema Müzesi
Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A
Istanbul, Turkey

Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023

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CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023 Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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Upstairs, Downstairs

Burma

For centuries, stairs have symbolized journeys, rites of passage,
transitions, and stages of life in art, literature, and music.

Tibet

My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
‘Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul
– William Butler Yeats

Italy

Stairs are climbed step by step.
– Turkish Proverb

Kashmir

Children’s stories tell tales of boys and girls discovering treasures upstairs in the attic and fearing what is downstairs in the basement.

Afghanistan

Faith is taking the first step even when
you don’t see the whole staircase.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Burma

Morocco

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe,
grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,
emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
– John Steinbeck

Jodhpur, India

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be
through Earth’s loveliness.
– Michelangelo

Italy

Mt. Popa, Burma
The stairway climbs a 300-foot lava plug crowned by Buddhist temples.

Serbia

Mother to Son
Well, Son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor —
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now —
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
– Langston Hughes

New York, September 12, 2001

Japan

New York

Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn’t any
other stair
quite like
it.
i’m not at the bottom,
i’m not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn’t up
And it isn’t down.
It isn’t in the nursery,
It isn’t in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn’t really
Anywhere!
It’s somewhere else
Instead!
– A.A. Milne

Italy

Haiku
Steep steps
Uneven treads
Life
– bmv

India

Iraq

Afghanistan

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Eloquence of the Eye

The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious
but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
– Charlotte Bronte

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye,
one seeing, one knowing, one love.
– Meister Eckhart, 1259 – 1327

These eyes tell the stories of
children around the world.
They speak of war, deprivation, and loss.

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
– William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
– G. K. Chesterton

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
– Sholom Aleichem

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson

The eyes are the most powerful social signalers that we have and hence are sometimes called the windows of the soul.
– Glen Wilson

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535 – c. 475 BCE

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
– Henry David Thoreau

Eyes have their own universal language, and
no interpreter is needed.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BCE

The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
– St. Jerome

Please check out linktr.ee/stevemccurry to see what’s new
at Steve McCurry Studios.

My new book, In Search of Elsewhere, will be released this fall in five language editions. Click here to pre-order.

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