A friend pointed me to Steve McCurry’s site today. Steve is a photographer whose work appears often in National Geographic, and with good reason: it’s amazing. Not just good, but incredibly, mind-numbingly talented. Check it out. “Most of my images are grounded in people,” he says on his bio page, “and I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that you could call the human condition.” The girl in the upper right is the “Afghan girl,” and that picture of her is apparently the most recognized photograph in the world.
I have to learn photography. The power of strong photographs is amazing. So that means I need to get a good camera (I talked about this several months ago, but of course haven’t done anything about it). Maybe I’ll see how much money I have by the end of the summer… Not only would I be able to post my photographs on here (y’all would like that, right? Plain text all the time is boring, or so I hear…), but I’d be able to print and frame the best ones, and I’d finally have some good original photos to use for Photoshop art. Mmm. We’ll see.
[tags]Steve McCurry, National Geographic, photography[/tags]
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Yes, the picture is familiar to me, probably because we always had old National Geographics lying around the house as a kid. I read a few years back about how the girl in the photo was re-found 17 years later. Here’s a link I dug up for you:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html
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