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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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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson began his photography career in France in the early 1930s and became widely credited as a pioneering figure of street photography and photojournalism, developing a philosophy he called the "decisive moment," capturing a fleeting instant that reveals the full meaning of a scene. Cartier-Bresson co-founded Magnum Photos in 1947 alongside fellow photographers Robert Capa, David Seymour, and George Rodger, creating one of the first photographer-owned cooperative agencies, which gave photojournalists significantly more control over their own work and its licensing than traditional publication staff positions allowed. Cartier-Bresson favored small, unobtrusive 35mm cameras and natural available light, deliberately avoiding cropping his images after the fact, a strict compositional discipline that reflected his belief that a photograph's composition should be fully resolved at the exact moment the shutter is released. Henri Cartier-Bresson's combination of his foundational "decisive moment" photographic philosophy and his co-founding of the influential Magnum Photos cooperative has made him one of the most historically significant photographers of the 20th century.
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