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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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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams began his photography career in the early 20th century, becoming closely associated with California's Yosemite Valley and the broader American West, where his dramatic black-and-white landscape images helped define the visual language of American wilderness photography. Adams co-developed the Zone System alongside fellow photographer Fred Archer in the 1930s and 1940s, a precise technical method for controlling exposure and film development to achieve exact tonal control across an image, which became a foundational technique taught in photography education for decades afterward. Adams was also a committed environmental advocate throughout his career, serving on the board of the Sierra Club for decades, and his photography played a direct role in advocacy efforts that helped establish and protect several U.S. national parks and wilderness areas. Ansel Adams's combination of his technically pioneering Zone System and his photography's direct role in American wilderness conservation advocacy has made him one of the most influential photographers in American history.
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