“Reading is a necessarily individual act, far more than writing”. These are the words of Italo Calvino at the exhibition Leggere by Steve McCurry at Palazzo Madama di Torino. The images of American photographer capture the intimacy of a individual act, as only great masters of photography can do.
Steve McCurry arrives in the city who hosts Salone del Libro, in the 32th edition, with 60 photographs in 70x100cm dedicated to the passion for reading. As in the exhibition Animals at MUDEC in Milano, where visitors find a gallery of portraits of owners and their pets, such as cocks, snakes and also some dogs, here in Turin too the images about this love for reading come from all over the world.
Visitors, in a free itinerary, can find people intent in reading, without noticing what is around them. Schools, noisy city life, temples or even war. No distinctions among the subjects: young and old people, from monks of Asia to the statue in Italy, from children at school in Afghanistan to the taxi driver lying on his car reading his newspaper in the crowded Bombay.
60 images are an extract of the famous book by Steve McCurry On Reading, published in 2016, it is a homage to the Hungarian photographer André Kertesz.
The exhibition in Turin does not forget about McCurry’s own books. Among people reading, also fifteen covers in 70x100cm, besides his most important publications. The Imperial Way, his first book, Portraits, with the famous Afghan girl on the front, Unguarded Moment, where the boy in mid flight runs from his playmates, but not from Steve McCurry’s lens, and finally with the latest published books and dedicated to the countries he loves the most, India (2015) and Afghanistan (2017). Do not miss the biography, published in 2018, A Life in Pictures, where his sister Bonnie Reum McCurry tells the adventurous life of his brother.
The exhibition is curated by Biba Giacchetti, with texts and quotes by Roberto Cotroneo. It is organized by Sudest57, Civita Mostre and Fondazione Torino Musei. It will be open at the Corte Medievale in Palazzo Madama from Mar. 9th to Jul. 1st 2019. For more information, please visit the website of the exhibition.
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