A Too-Perfect Picture: Teju Cole on Steve McCurry’s India

 To consider a place largely from the perspective of a permanent anthropological past, to settle on a notion of authenticity that edits out the present day, is not simply to present an alternative truth: It is to indulge in fantasy.

— Teju Cole in an Article on Steve McCurry’s Book “India”, that collects images taken between 1978 and 2014

 

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