Famous+Photographer

=**Steve McCurry**=


 * Historical Background:**

Born on February 24, 1950 in the small town of Newton Square, Pennsylvania. Steve attended Marple Newtown High School in Delaware, and then graduated from the Collage of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. After working at a newspaper for two years, he left for India to freelance. It was in India that he learned to watch and wait on life, realizing that people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view. His career launched when in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-control Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. Then he arrived with his rolls of film sewn into his clothes of images that would be published around the world as among the first to show the conflict there.


 * Influences:**

Steve McCurry is driven by an innate curiosity and sense of wonder about the world and everyone in it. He loves to be able to cross boundaries of language and culture to capture stories of human experience. He looks for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person's face. He tries to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape that you could call the human condition.


 * Style & Genre:**

He is recognized universally as one of today's finest image-makers, and is best known for his evocative color photography. His style of photography captures the raw instances in human lives. McCurry focuses upon human consequences of war, not only showing what war impresses on the landscape, but rather on the human face. The genre that he focuses on is documentary, like international and civil conflict.

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This photo has element relationship. It portrays young girls in their desks reading in a class room together. Lighting is coming from the right side of the photo above the desks, getting darker towards the back.

This photo uses color space, and direction. The photo gives us a playful, and happy message with the child hand prints and the young boy running around the corner. Lighting is coming from directly above the corner where the boy is running, since the buildings are the shaded areas.

This photo displays simple and single point. The famous photo is a portrait of a beautiful young Afghan girl, with stunning blue-green eyes. Lighting is coming from the right side of the photo because there is a shadow going darker towards the left side of her face.