McCurry survived the Slovenia plane crash, as well as armed robbers and bombings in Afghanistan, but what comes through in his images is wonder, rather than suffering. The book spans 30 years of McCurry’s career and includes fascinating ephemera from his travels: diary entries, photos of him at work and some of the 20-plus passports he’s gone through over the decades. So begins Magnum photographer Steve McCurry’s latest book, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs (Phaidon). My camera and bag are still 65 feet down.” The pilot and I swam under the aircraft to the surface. My seat belt was stuck, but an instinct for self-preservation kicked in and I was able to wrestle free. The plane flipped, and the fuselage began to sink in the icy lake. The wheels caught and we went down, the propeller shattering as we hit the water. “Flying low over Lake Bled, on assignment in Slovenia in February 1989, the pilot took the plane dangerously close to the water’s surface.
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