Steve McMurry
Steve McCurry was born in February 24th 1950 in Darby Pennsylvania.
His job title Photojournalist and his agent Magnum Photos
Early life
Steve McCurry attended Penn State University, however he originally wanted to study cinematography and filmmaking, but ended up getting a degree in theater arts and graduating in 1974.
He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian.
After working at Today's Post in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for two years, he left for India to freelance. It was here that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. “If you wait,” he realized, “people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”
Career
His career when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled areas of Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes. Those images, which were published around the world, were among the first to show the conflict. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise.
McCurry continued to cover armed conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq War, Lebanon Civil War, the Cambodian Civil War, the Islamic insurgency in the Philippines, the Gulf War and the Afghan Civil War. His work has been featured worldwide in magazines and he is a frequent contributor to National Geographic. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.
Made his mark - Afghan Girl photo
McCurry most recognized portrait was of the Afghan Girl in the refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. This image itself was named as "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine and her face became famous as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue.
The photo has also been widely used on 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.”
BELOW ARE IMAGES OF Mike Stimpson
He has recreated many iconic photographs in LEGOs;
there are two examples below that I will discuss in detail the, Raising the flag on Iwo Jima and darling kiss on V – J DAY and there
is one in my assignment, the Skyscraper
Raising the flag on
Iwo Jima
Raising the flag for victory was raised by the USA 4 soldiers which can seen on the battle field in the
Lego iconic image.
The image show USA many men may have been killed and
only four men remained to raise the USA flag.
The Lego men have helmets and a toy flag; it is a good
iconic image as it can be used as a advertisement to selling Lego for any age
group depending on the size of the Lego size of the bricks.
Both images are in black and white, can it be, the
main image of raising the flag was not good in colour so it was turned into black
and white.
We know if images that are in bold colours and
a white background or any other contrast colour it will make the image stand
out and eye catching and off course the lighting in the studio has to be
correct but, if the above is not correct than a black and white image can be
better.
Consequently black and white images
can have a strong, high contrast and can be powerful if it does not fit in the
above criteria.
Plus black and white images can prevent the eye
being distracted by different colour objects and your eye is drawn more to the subject
in hand.
Therefore coming back to the Raising the flag on Iwo Jima and to the Lego images that are in black and white and other images,
turning colour into black and white makes then more powerful than the eye can
see i.e. it has many tones in black and
white.
2nd image
This above is of the darling kiss on V – J DAY
His background in
brief
Michael Keith "Mike"
Simpson, born
September 8, 1950, he is a member of the Representatives representing Idaho's 2nd
congressional district. He has served since 1999. He is
a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Idaho House of
Representatives.
Mike began
his career in the sensible end of the computer industry as a chip designer in
1985, but fortunately escaped from terminal sensibleness and took to games
instead. His first game, Swords and
Sorcery was for the Spectrum and Amstrad which won him the Game of the Year
Award in 1985. Mike also claims it was the first computer RPG.
The above
face image shows if there are different shapes of real faces you can only work
with the same shape when it comes to logos pieces.
see below for lego faces.
The image disappears once i save, so have place the web address.
http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z419/shortlist1/Kiss.gif
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