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Steve McCurry
Portraits
Phaidon Press
1999

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Born in Philadelphia, McCurry graduated cum laude from the College 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 McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. "If you wait," he realized, "people would forget your camera and the soul would drift up into view."
His career was launched when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes, images which would be published around the world as among the first to show the conflict there. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise.
He is the recipient of numerous awards which include Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded by the National Press Photographers Association. This was the same year in which he won an unprecedented four first prizes in the World Press Photo Contest. He won the Olivier Rebbot Memorial Award twice.
McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. His focus is on the human consequences of war. McCurry's work frequently appears in National Geographic Magazine with recent articles on Yemen and the temples of Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
"Most of my images are grounded in people, and I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that I guess you'll call the human condition."

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Italian, b.1946
Ferdinando Scianna, who was born in Bagheria, Sicily, spent the first 22 years of his life in Sicily and became a specialist in the culture of the island which is the subject of several of his books, from Feste Religiose in Sicilia, 1965, a Prix Nadar winner, to his magnum opus Les Siciliens, 1977.
In a style akin to that of the Italian neo-realists of the 1940s, using a dramatic, baroque light and dark shadows, Scianna depicts a region in the grip of powerful traditions and religious culture, but at the same time able to assimilate modernity.
Scianna, who began photographing in the 1960s, always had a passion for literature and philosophy which he studied at the University of Palermo (1961-66): subsequently he had a career both as a writer and as a photographer. In 1966 Scianna moved to Milan and the following year began working as a staff photographer for the weekly, L'Europeo. In 1973 he started work as a journalist first as a Paris correspondent for l'Europeo in 1974, then for Le Monde Diplomatique (1976) and La Quinzaine LittŽraire.
Scianna, who met Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977, became a Magnum nominee in 1982. The following year he returned to Milan and covered stories in Europe, Africa and the US. In 1989 he became a member of Magnum and has since divided his time between reportage, fashion and long-term projects leading to books.
Partial Bibliography Feste Religiose in Sicilia (Religious Festivals in Sicily), 1965
Il glorioso Alberto (The Glorious Albert), 1971
La Villa dei Mostri (Villa of the Monsters), 1977
Les Siciliens (The Sicilians), 1977
Il Grande Libro della Sicilia (The Big Book of Sicily), 1984
Ferdinando Scianna: L'instante e la Forma (The Instant and the Form), 1987
Ore di Spagna (Spanish Hours), 1988
Città del Mondo (Cities of the World), 1988
Kami, 1989
Ferdinando Scianna: La Forma del Caos (Shape of the Chaos), 1989
Leonardo Sciascia fotografato da Ferdinando Scianna (Sciascia photographed by F.S.), 1989
Marpessa, 1993
Altrove: reportage di moda (Fashion Reportage), 1995
Viaggio a Lourdes (Travel to Lourdes), 1996
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Photographs, 1998




Erwitt, Elliott (1928-)
Erwitt is an American photographer and film maker who studied film at the New School for Social Research, New York from 1948 to 1950. Photographic assistant with US Army Signal Corps and Standard Oil Company from 1950 to 1952. Freelance photographer and film maker from 1953. Erwitt is Internationally renowned for his street photographs. Films include The Director, Beauty Knows No Pain and Red, White and Blue Grass.

Erwitt, Elliott
(b Paris, 26 July 1928). American photographer and film maker. He studied film at the New School for Social Research, New York, from 1948 to 1950. From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a photographic assistant for the US Army Signal Corps and under Roy Stryker (1882–1975) at the Standard Oil Company, New Jersey, from 1950 to 1952. From 1953 he was a freelance photographer and film maker and a member of the Magnum photographic agency. Although he was highly successful in the field of advertising, his international reputation was based on his personal work. His street photographs, wry and quirky narratives, concentrated on the vagaries of human existence. They often relied heavily on visual puns. Unrelated and sometimes bizarre events, for example the small dog captured in mid-air in Ballycotton, Ireland (1968; see Photographs and Anti-photographs, p. 48), are held together within the 35 mm frame by strong graphic and formal compositions. Erwitt’s films include Dustin Hoffman, Arthur Penn: The Director, Beauty Knows No Pain and Red, White and Bluegrass.
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