A profile of the man behind one of the most recognisable portraits ever taken, from a troubled childhood through a 40-year career in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones
Steve McCurry’s name may not trigger immediate recognition, but his most famous picture certainly will: Afghan Girl, taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, a 12-year-old called Sharbat Gula whose startlingly bright eyes took the shot all the way to the cover of National Geographic magazine. McCurry’s career is considerably more than this one picture, but such is its fame it provides significant ballast to his reputation and elevates him into photography’s elite.
So what does this admiring profile tell us? McCurry is a pretty truculent customer, unwilling to give much away; but uncompromisingly direct when he wants to be. There’s a little archeology into his troubled childhood, including an unlucky hand injury...
Steve McCurry’s name may not trigger immediate recognition, but his most famous picture certainly will: Afghan Girl, taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, a 12-year-old called Sharbat Gula whose startlingly bright eyes took the shot all the way to the cover of National Geographic magazine. McCurry’s career is considerably more than this one picture, but such is its fame it provides significant ballast to his reputation and elevates him into photography’s elite.
So what does this admiring profile tell us? McCurry is a pretty truculent customer, unwilling to give much away; but uncompromisingly direct when he wants to be. There’s a little archeology into his troubled childhood, including an unlucky hand injury...
- 10/18/2022
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
I feel bad picking on Jon Sable. He’s a favorite of the ComicMix team, and they’ve been very nice to me over the years. In fact, the book I have here is a limited edition for Baltimore Comic-Con 2008 — number 96 of 100. [1] It makes me wish I liked it better.
But we can’t choose to like things, can we? I’ve never been any good at that.
Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden was a new story about the ex-big-game-hunter turned freelance security expert and bestselling kids-book writer, appearing on the ComicMix site before being collected into book form a decade ago.
Ashes of Eden has got some big-white-hunter stuff — you have to expect that with Jon Sable Freelance; it’s baked into his origin as deeply as possible — but I didn’t find it particularly racist, maybe because this story takes place mostly in the Us. It’s a bit sexist,...
But we can’t choose to like things, can we? I’ve never been any good at that.
Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden was a new story about the ex-big-game-hunter turned freelance security expert and bestselling kids-book writer, appearing on the ComicMix site before being collected into book form a decade ago.
Ashes of Eden has got some big-white-hunter stuff — you have to expect that with Jon Sable Freelance; it’s baked into his origin as deeply as possible — but I didn’t find it particularly racist, maybe because this story takes place mostly in the Us. It’s a bit sexist,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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