Steve Mccurry's :-

Steve McCurry's photographs capture the very essence of human experience. Many of them have become modern icons and his work is shown in publications the world over as an uncompromising testimony. 15 works will be shown in the New Library.

Even though the Iran- Iraq war dragged on for the better part of a decade with a million people lost, when I photographed Baghdad in 1985, everything in the city seemed normal. People shopped, children went to school, street vendors hawked their goods, and carpets with Saddam's likeness were draped over railings waiting for someone to purchase them. It was difficult to believe that an incredibly destructive war was raging and would end with little or nothing resolved. No one could have predicted that just a few years later, Iraq would invade Kuwait which would mobilize a coalition from around the world.

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