FLORENCE, ITALY – 40 years of activity the master of world photography Steve McCurry celebrated in a 100 shots-exhibition at the suggestive and fascinating Villa Bardini, Florence.
Until September 16th the exhibition ‘Steve McCurry. Icons’, curated by Biba Giacchetti, collects the 100 shots documenting the best of what the American artist has achieved in 40 years of activity.
The exhibition takes visitors on a symbolic journey into the complex universe of experiences and emotions that characterize his images and which will touch countries such as India, Afghanistan, Burma, Japan, Cuba and Brazil.
Do not miss the portrait of Sharbat Gula, the Afghan girl that McCurry has photographed in the Peshawar refugee camp in Pakistan and who, with her big green eyes and sad look, has become an absolute icon of world photography.
Within the exhibition, the film is shown, produced by National Geographic, dedicated to the long search that allowed to find, 17 years later, ‘the Afghan girl’ now adult.
Steve McCurry Icons – From 15 June to 16 September
Villa Bardini, Costa San Giorgio, 2 and Via dei Bardi 1rosso – 50125 Florence
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 7 pm (last admission at 6 pm)
Monday closed
Tickets cost: Full € 10.00, Reduced € 5.00. Every Wednesday in August free admission for everyone to Villa Bardini and to the exhibition ‘Icons’ by Steve McCurry.
Hong Kong, China, 1984, Performers backstage from the Chinese Opera. 
Burma/Myanmar, 02/2011, Intha fisherman paddles his boat along Inle Lake. 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, nonviolent activist and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar), 1995. 
Rangoon, Burma, 1994 Child at Train Window. Rangoon, Burma, 1994. 
Impromptu Football Match, Sittwe, Burma/Myanmar, 1995. 
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2/2009, Man Running at Dawn. Rio de Janeiro. 
Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl. Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984. 
Hazaras, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1993, A young Afghan soldier. 
Herat, Afghanistan, 1992,Herat After Ten Years of Bombing, Afghanistan, 1992.
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