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Art Nouveau screen in nice original condition, solid wood complemented by printed paintings of Art Nouveau ladies. Traces of use, scratches, spills,...

Portraits by Steve McCurry Photography Book Steve McCurry Phaidon Press, Jun 17, 1999 - Photography. Title Portraits Author Steve McCurry Photographs by Steve McCurry. Illustrated by Steve McCurry Edition reprint Publisher Phaidon Press, 1999. Steve McCurry never set out to take portraits. In 1985, he photographed an Afghan girl for the National Geographic. The intensity of the subject's eyes and her compelling gaze made this one of the most widely and consistently celebrated portraits in the history of contemporary photography. This accompanies the other remarkable faces he has encountered whilst travelling throughout the world, collected together in an engaging and strangely moving series of unique street portraits: unposed, unstylized images of people that reveal the true universality of the depths of human emotion. Critically acclaimed and recognized internationally for his classic reportage, over the last twenty years he has worked on numerous assignments, travelling extensively throughout the Middle and Far East. McCurry has won first prize in the World Press Awards, and was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1984. He is most famous for his evocative color photography, which has captured stories of human experience that, in the finest documentary tradition, transcend boundaries of language and culture. Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University before working as a freelance photographer in India. His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan, just before the Russian invasion, to take the first pictures of the conflict. Since then many of McCurry's images have become modern icons. His coverage won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise. McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut and the Gulf War...

Wonderful antique travel trunk, in patinated leather finish, this example was made in Austria, early 20th C. The trunk retains the M. Wurzl & S...

Vienna Werkstatte style screen, circa 1950, in gold and silver leaf with red lacquer background and multi-colored decoration. Double-sided with diffe...