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VOLUME 22 . NUMBER 85 . SUMMER 2012

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Cover image: Steve Mccurry

This photograph, taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is part of Steve McCurry’s long-term project to document people reading all over the world. McCurry’s photographs capture the conspicuous intimacy between reader and book in private and public spaces. “Everywhere I go in the world,” he says, “I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books. Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular, they are, for a time, transported to another world.” Steve McCurry is an award-winning photojournalist whose work frequently appears in National Geographic. His most recent book is Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs, published by Phaidon Press in 2011. See his work at stevemccurry.com.

Cover design: Eric Uhlich

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