Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs
William Kerry Purcell
This spectacular book brings together the most beautiful, memorable and evocative pictures of Steve McCurry's extraordinary career
American photographer Steve McCurry (b.1950) is universally recognized as one of today’s finest image-makers and has won many of photography’s top awards. This new monograph brings together the most memorable and beautiful of his images, taken around the world over the last 30 years. McCurry's ability to cross boundaries of language and culture to capture fleeting moments of human experience is unique. With his discerning eye for form and colour, shape and symmetry, he offers us windows into other worlds.
Steve McCurry is counted among the most popular and appealing photographers across the globe, who have contributed some magnificent masterpieces to the photography world. He has won numerous awards in photography, including the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal. In the early days of his career as a photojournalist, he spent some time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he shot pictures of some natives. One of the pictures of Afghan girls he shot gave him the major elevation to his fame by being included in the National Geographic magazine.