INDIA-10220, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India, 1983National Geographic, December 1984, Monsoons: Life Breath of Half the World.Magnum Photos, NYC5904, MCS1983002 K001, final print_milan”Life goes on, in spite of and because of the monsoon. That is why McCurry loves this weather. His award-winning book Monsoon (1988) extols the vigour of extreme climate. It requires a special acceptance and discipline. The street vendor shows up to make his sales. Men head off to work. They make accommodations. The palette is muted. But the gift of daily life, like a shock of white and the vivid presence of the colour red, shoot through the grey, rainy day.” – Phaidon 55Bannon, Anthony (2005) Steve McCurry New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 8.Blessed and cursed, destructive and sustaining, India’s summer monsoon floods a Delhi street. For half the world’s people, the rain-bearing seasonal winds that sweep into Asia fro tropical oceans remain life’s critical uncertainty.National Geographic: Priit J. Vesilind. Monsoons: Life Breath of Half of the World National Geographic (December 1984, vol 166 (6)), 712-747
