a reflection of the Taj Mahal in a river in India
an artist in Chicago
a couple on Lower Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee
a view out a window of Warsaw, Poland at dawn
a man at Abacanto restaurant in Mallorca
a girl on the beach in California
a woman riding a motorbike in Saigon, Vietnam
an aerial view of a boat in the Sea Islands in Georgia
a patron at Cornwall Pub in England
a cityscape of Toledo, Spain
a young man in front of the Delta Queen riverboat on the Mississippi River
a group during a surfing lesson in Barbados
an apprentice geisha in Kyoto, Japan
people in costume at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland
two deer before a lighthouse on Anticosti Island in Quebec
a chef in a garden in Provence, France
a pearl diver in the South Pacific atoll of Fakarava
an elderly man on the street in Montalcino, Italy
an Arambak tribesman and a child in Papua New Guinea
a cowboy eating a hamburger in Houston, Texas
a young man before the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy
a boy swimming in hot springs in Idaho
a woman walking through a mosque in Abu Dhabi
performers from a Cirque du Soleil parade in Montreal
a man beside a car holding flowers in Lot Valley, France
a boy in Bali, Indonesia
a woman walking through Torres del Paine park in Patagonia, Chile
a man holding a small dog in Paris, France
a girl blowing a bubble outside the Don CeSar Hotel in Florida
a boat in the backwaters of Kerala, India
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Reflected Glory, 1999


For our “50 Places of a Lifetime” special issue, the dilemma was how to show overexposed icons like India’s Taj Mahal in a fresh way. McCurry’s solution: Don’t show it at all. “It’s just a reflection in the river,” says director of photography Dan Westergren, “and it’s also upside-down.

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Photograph by Steve McCurry

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