Luis Quinones Rubin Museum Assignment

                                                Steve McCurry’s Rubin Museum

           Based on my class trip to the Rubin Museum in my thoughts and feelings I enjoyed it. The Rubin Museum is a quiet exhibit where there is no hardly crowds and there is a lot of space where the person can breathe. Is physical space are wide rooms where the person can have freedom to walk around and get the sense of the museum’s environment and its paintings. As we went to the fifth floor to go check out the Steve McCurry paintings I felt very inspired. There were a total of 25 Steve McCurry paintings on the floor and each painting had a significant of  feelings and emotions. The kind of photos that were taken there were photos from India mostly in the Maharashtra Bombay and the Ultar Pradesh and the time of year that these photos were taken was in between early 1980’s to late 2000’s.

      Based on Steve McCurry’s exhibit of India, the photo’s that McCurry mostly took was close-ups and medium shots of indian people in a moment event. For example he took a picture of a crowded people carrying a happy man during the Holi Festival of Rajasthan India in the year 1996. This photo represents the celebration of the Hindu Holi Festival which the indians are celebrating the beginning of spring. McCurry’s approach to this photograph was to focus on capturing certain moments of events that are happening in the world and his purpose was to present these photographs to the viewer to make them feel connected to the photo and to feel the experience of the special event that happened in history.

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         During my time at the Rubin Museum, the one photograph that I like the most is the photograph of a Tailor Carries His Sewing Machine through Monsoon Waters. Photo was taken in Portbandar Guijarat India in 1983. The reason why I chose this photo as the best from the other photo’s because to me it tells a story. It explains how the Indian man had to carried the sewing machine on his shoulder to walk to other places to sell and make money as a tailor. But unfortunately the sewing machine broke and tailor felt upset. But when the manufacturer gave him a new one, he felt really happy. So at that moment that the man was happy, Steve McCurry took the photo of that man walking through the water. The best part about Steve McCurry, is that he actually stands in deep water where most of his body was wet to take this man’s photo. Also this photo is very connecting because based on the expression of the Indian Man’s face, is shows happiness and makes me feel happy and joy.

       Based on McCurry’s most famous photo “The Afghan Girl” this photo became so iconic because it tells a story. You can see from the expression of her face what she been through, being a refugee women living in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Also how McCurry photograph her at time of her refugee. Another important fact is that how many people  liked this photo that it became “The First World Third World Mona Lisa. What makes this a great photo is how the women is looking towards the camera and the viewers, also the use of broad lighting giving a high contrast to the whole image. Another thing is that the person is in center of the photo and the use of colors that the women is wearing describing who she is. What I learn about the story of this image is as I mention how she was a refugee surviving the soviet occupation and how intense it was for her that she had to lived through this. Overall my biggest take away from the exhibit is the photo’s that Steve McCurry took, the clarity and use of colors that are being presented. It gives me a good relaxing feeling when observing these photo’s. It’s amazing how pictures can tell a story, understanding its purpose and the reason why the photographer took it. I definitely want to go back to the museum again it was fun.