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STEVE M
C
CURRY (1950- )
Afghan Girl.
Fujicolor Crystal Archive print, the image measuring 19
1
/
2
x13 inches (49.5x33 cm.),
the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with McCurry’s signature, in ink, and the serial number
42497, in pencil, on verso. 1984; printed 1990s
[10,000/15,000]
From Howard Greenberg Gallery, NewYork, NewYork; to a Private East Coast Collector, in the 1990s.
In 1979 McCurry, disguised in traditional clothes, agreed to document the civil war in Afghanistan.
He crossed the border from Pakistan in May 1979—just a few months before the Soviet Union
invaded. McCurry was one of the first photographers to record the extreme brutality happening in
Afghanistan during this time.