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Monday, 27 June 2011

Portraits of Steve McCurry

Afghan Girl - 12 year-old Sharbat Gula, taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan, 1984
 Iconic but milked?
I vividly remember buying Lil the box of postcards for her birthday during our GCSEs, or roughly around that time. Postcards - So is McCurry suffering the over-exposure of the likes of the Impressionists? Is he verging on the biscuit tin photographer? Sean O'Hagan puts forward a strong argument against this in the Guardian Weekend.

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