This month, the Rubin Museum of Art will display a selection of images from Steve McCurry’s travels to India over the last three decades. The photographs of the people, monuments, and landscapes of India, some of which have never before been published, are all endowed with McCurry’s trademark bursts of color. The Magnum photographer’s exhibit also corresponds to the release of his new book, India, which features 150 images of subcontinent. “No matter how much the country is changing,” he told Time, “there’s something about India that makes you feel like you’re stepping back into another time and age.”
Steve McCurry's India
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Read moreAn elderly man from the Rabari Tribe poses for a portrait in Rajasthan, India, in 2010. #
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Read moreWomen climb up stepwells in India in 2002. #
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Read moreA crowd carries a man during the Holi festival in Rajasthan in 1996. #
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Read moreA man carries statue of Ganesh into the water in Mumbai, India, in 1993. #
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Read moreA tailor transports his sewing machine during a monsoon in Porbandar, India, in 1983. #
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Read moreMen pray before the Ber Baba Buddha tree in Amritsar, India, in 1996. Baba Buddha, one of the gurus of Sikhism, would sit and meditate underneath it. #
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Read moreA man circles around a tree trunk in Jaipur, Rajasthan, in 2009. #
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Read moreCrowds gather for the Kumbh Mela festival on temporary pontoon bridges across the River Ganges in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in 2001. #
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Read moreThe Taj Mahal is pictured behind a train in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, in 1983. #
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Read moreA boy in mid-flight in the Blue City, a small tightly knit maze of houses located towards the north of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in 2007. #
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Read moreThe moon rises over Mumbai in 1994. #
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Read moreA father and daughter on Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir, in 1996. #
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