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préface John Guy
Steve McCurry has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the world's most impressive monuments. His stunning images of the site document a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks. Angkor was the capital of the khmer rulers from the end of the ninth century until the mid-fifteenth. Each built a state temple at the capital, surrounded by walls, moats and embankments laid out in accordance with cosmological precepts. Designated a world heritage site by UNESCO, the temples attract tourists, archaeologists and art historians, and are an important buddhist pilgrimage destination. McCurry first visited Angkor on assignment for National Geographic magazine, for whom he has photographed all over the world. He has made many return visits, capturing a sublime portrait of the buildings, sculpture and people of Angkor.
Steve McCurry was born in Philadelphia and studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania state university. He then began working as a freelance photographer, gaining international recognition with his photographs of rebel-controlled Afghanistan prior to the russian invasion in 1979. He has since become a member of the prestigious agency magnum and his work has featured in National Geographic and many other magazines, winning him numerous awards, including the Alfred eisenstaedt award in 1998
John Guy, a leading authority on the cultural history of Southeast Asia, is curator of indian and southeast asian sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and consultant to UNESCO on historical monuments in Southeast Asia.
