Download or read book Steve McCurry: On Reading written by Steve McCurry and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the timeless act of reading - as seen through the lens of one of the world's most beloved photographers Young or old, rich or poor, engaged in the sacred or the secular, people everywhere read. This homage to the beauty and seductiveness of reading brings together a collection of photographs taken by Steve McCurry over his nearly four decades of travel and is introduced by award-winning writer, Paul Theroux. McCurry's mesmerizing images of the universal human act of reading are an acknowledgement of - and a tribute to - the overwhelming power of the written word.