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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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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

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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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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Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date May 5, 2020
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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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Serenity

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there
wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
– Norman Davies

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
– Lao Tzu

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
– Henri Matisse

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
– Joseph Addison

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
– Andre Gide
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Portraits of Innocence

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.
– Wess Stafford

Every child comes with the message that
God is not yet discouraged of man.
– Rabindranath Tagore

You must work — we all must work —
to make this world worthy of its children.
– Pablo Casals

Children are the living messages we send to a
time we will not see.
– President John F. Kennedy

The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
– Fred Rogers

The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments —
tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.
– Louis Pasteur

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Essence of Life
Nantucket, Massachusetts
July 18 – 28, 2019

Le Monde de Steve McCurry
Lyon, France
Ends July 21, 2019

Visages de L’Innocence
Barbizon, France
Ends September 22, 2019

Steve McCurry: Animals
Aosta, Italy
Ends October 5, 2019

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Finding Home

Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
– Dennis Lehane

A home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller

Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

*McCurry family home, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA*

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Wanderlust

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe,
and my camera is my passport.
– Steve McCurry

I’d like to go anywhere.
– John Steinbeck

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads.
There are no wrong turns.
– Susan Magsamen

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
– Jack Kerouac

I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost,
I have never been lost – I just wasn’t ready to be found.
– Nikki Rowe

… a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body
itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
– Rebecca Solnit

… all my life I have lived and behaved very much like the Sandpiper just
running down the edges of different countries and continents,
looking for something.
– Elizabeth Bishop