{"id":283478,"date":"2017-03-28T17:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funzine.hu\/?p=283478\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:30:23","slug":"readers-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funzine.hu\/en\/2017\/03\/28\/have-fun-en\/readers-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person who reads is barely lonely or bored but entertained, educated, and\/or informed by the book. In the act of reading the fantasy world of a book is often reflected on the face of the people; it can raise them from the present moment, and stop the world for a little while.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve McCurry, the photographer of Magnum Photos, was taking pictures of people immersed in reading all over the world for forty years.<\/p>\nFot\u00f3: Steve McCurry\/Magnum Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The photographer was inspired by Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz, the famous Hungarian photographer:<\/p>\n

I met the legendary photographer Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz shortly after I moved to New York in my early thirties. Some of his most intriguing pictures were photographs of people reading. They were taken over a 50-year period, and were collected in his book On Reading, published in 1971.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– he told to BBC.<\/p>\n