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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

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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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

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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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Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date May 5, 2020
39 Comments on Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
– Mahatma Gandhi

All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
– Abraham Lincoln

Mother is the name for God in the lips
and hearts of little children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother: the most beautiful word
on the lips of mankind.
—Kahlil Gibran

Artists have been depicting the special bond between mothers and their children for hundreds of years.

Relationships can be difficult to describe, and sometimes an image tells the story better than words. One of the most powerful and unforgettable photos depicting a mother and her children in the history of photography is Dorothea Lange’s photograph of a destitute mother and her children taken in 1936.

Dorothea Lange said in an interview about the picture, “She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.”

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law…
– Agatha Christie

Doris Mae Stevens McCurry holding Steve, Baltimore, MD

Music: Reverie by Scott Buckley

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Generations: A Family Affair

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date February 28, 2020
25 Comments on Generations: A Family Affair

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and
the heart weakens, that children understand;
their stories, and all their accomplishments,
sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers,
stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from the strength and experience of those who went before.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
– Henri Nouwen

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
– Marge Kennedy

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The Lives We Live

The doors we open and close each day decide
the lives we live.
– Flora Whittemore

Doors Are both frame and monument
To our spent time, And too little Has been said Of our coming through and leaving by them.
– Charles Tomlinson

Since the beginning of time,
doors have symbolized both great opportunities and thwarted dreams. The open door is a metaphor for new life, a passage from one stage of life to another, and metamorphosis. Closed doors often represent rejection and exclusion.

O god of hinges, god of long voyages, you have kept faith.
It’s dark in there. You confide yourself to the darkness
You step in.The door swings closed.
– Margaret Atwood

It’s doors I’m afraid of because I can’t see through them.
Its the door opening by itself in the wind I’m afraid of.
– Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing. The opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
– Andrew Rooney

A door just opened on a street– I, lost, was passing by–
An instant’s width of warmth disclosed And wealth, and company. The door as sudden shut, and I, I, lost, was passing by, Lost doubly, but by contrast most, Enlightening misery.
– Emily Dickinson