Steve McCurry

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve McCurry
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1950(1950-04-23)
Age	74
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Aries

Steve McCurry Biography

Steve McCurry is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 23, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Photographer who became famous for his work Afghan Girl, which was published on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June of 1985.

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McCurry attended Penn State University. He originally planned to study cinematography and filmmaking, but instead gained a degree in theater arts and graduated in 1974. He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian.

McCurry took “Afghan Girl” in December 1984. It portrays an approximately 12 -year-old Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. McCurry found the girl when he heard “unexpected laughter” coming from children inside a one-room school tent for girls. “I noticed this one little girl with these incredible eyes, and I instantly knew that this was really the only picture I wanted to take,” he says. This was the first time the girl had ever been photographed. The image was named as “the most recognized photograph” in the history of the National Geographic magazine, and was used as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue. The photo has also been widely used on Amnesty International brochures, posters, and calendars. The identity of the “Afghan Girl” remained unknown for over 17 years until McCurry and a National Geographic team located the woman, Sharbat Gula, in

2002. McCurry said, “Her skin is weathered; there are wrinkles now, but she is as striking as she was all those years ago.”

He was born within Darby, Pennsylvania.

Steve McCurry Net Worth

Steve McCurry is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve McCurry 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The graduate graduated at Penn State University with a degree in theater arts in 1974.

He was a photographer at Today’s Post in Pennsylvania for two years, before he went to India to become a freelance photographer.

Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer, freelancer and photojournalist. His photo “Afghan Girl”, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.

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Who is Steve McCurry Dating?

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McCurry shoots in both film and digital, but says he prefers shooting with transparency film. Eastman Kodak gifted him the last roll of Kodachrome film to ever be produced by Kodak. McCurry shot the roll, which was processed in July 2010 by Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas. Most of these photos were published on the Internet by Vanity Fair. McCurry states, “I shot it for 30 years and I have several hundred thousand pictures on Kodachrome in my archive. I’m trying to shoot 36 pictures that act as some kind of wrap up – to mark the passing of Kodachrome. It was a wonderful film.”

Facts & Trivia

Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Steve McCurry celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.

In 2015, he was hired by Microsoft to take photographs in areas of New Zealand, which were used as wallpapers in Windows 10.

What is Steve McCurry famous for?

Steve McCurry’s career in photography has seen him travel the world covering conflicts, vanishing traditional cultures and scenes from contemporary society. Best known for his photograph Afghan Girl , he has gone on to document the impact of war and conflict to humans and the environment.

What techniques does Steve McCurry use?

McCurry often uses leading lines to achieve depth and pleasing visuals. Leading lines are a great way to lead the viewer’s eye into an image. It’s a simple technique that can make almost achieve the illusion of three- dimensionality. It can carry us right into the world of the image.

What is Steve McCurry's style?

Most of Steve McCurry’s images are tight headshot images and although he usually crops to portrait format there are a few landscape (environmental) style in his portfolio of images. I wanted to subtly keep the flowers in the image as the tell a story about the woman.

What is the title of the most famous recognized Steve McCurry photograph?

Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله) (pronounced [ˈʃaɾbat]) (born 20 March 1972), also known as Sharbat Bibi, taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry.

Why is the Afghan Girl photo famous?

The haunting expression, a mixture of pain and resilience, of a child thought to be around 12, was dubbed the “Afghan Girl.” She became a symbol of war, displacement and defiance after American photographer Steve McCurry captured her image in a refugee camp in Peshawar, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.