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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon began his career shooting for Harper's Bazaar in the late 1940s, pioneering a dynamic new style of fashion photography that captured models in motion and genuine emotional expression rather than the static, formal poses typical of fashion photography at the time. Avedon later became particularly renowned for his stark, minimalist portrait style, typically photographing subjects against a plain white background, a deliberately unadorned approach that stripped away context to focus entirely on the subject's face and expression. Avedon's landmark project "In the American West," a series of large-format portraits of working-class Americans across the western United States published in 1985, marked a significant departure from his celebrity and fashion work and drew both major acclaim and some criticism for its unflinching, unglamorous subjects. Richard Avedon's combination of his revolutionary dynamic fashion photography style and his stark, minimalist portraiture approach has made him one of the most influential photographers in the history of both fashion and fine-art portraiture.
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Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry built his career as a photojournalist covering conflicts and cultures around the world for National Geographic and other major publications, becoming particularly known for smuggling his exposed film out of Afghanistan sewn into his clothing while covering the Soviet-Afghan War in the early 1980s. McCurry captured what became one of the most recognized photographs in the history of the medium, "Afghan Girl," a 1984 portrait of a young Afghan refugee with piercing green eyes that ran on the cover of National Geographic in 1985 and remains one of the magazine's most famous images ever published. McCurry's identity of the previously unnamed subject, Sharbat Gula, was confirmed nearly 17 years later in 2002 using iris-recognition technology, a rare instance of a famous anonymous documentary photograph's subject being definitively identified long after the image's initial publication. Steve McCurry's combination of his harrowing Afghan War reporting and his creation of the globally iconic "Afghan Girl" portrait has made him one of the most recognized photojournalists in modern history.
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