Web Work 8 Steve McCurry

I randomly picked a photographers name from a list and I choose Steve McCurry, and when I looked him up I was shocked to see that very famous picture of the "Afghan Girl".  This photo first appeared in Natoinal Geographic gaining McCurry his fame.  

McCurry studied cinematography and film making at Penn State University.  But he ended up getting a degree in theater arts in 1974.  This is when he began to be interested in photography taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper.  McCurry went to Afghanistan and disguised himself in native dress and hid his film by sewing it into his clothes.  He was photographing the Soviet war in Afghanistan when he took the picture of the "Afghan Girl" in a refugee camp.  The photograph was named the most recognizable photograph by National Geographic.

Eastman Kodak let McCurry shoot the last ever produced roll of Kodachrome transparency film.  The film was processed by Dwayne's Photo in Parson's Kansas and is housed at the George Eastman House.