Photographer Steve McCurry looks back on a life spent capturing iconic moments

During this final lap I’m paying close attention to the choices that I make. I’m trying to be very intentional. When I say that I’m aiming to create the fullest expression of the work, I don’t just mean the stories. I want to perfect the process too. How exactly am I using the time that each person gives me on the street? How are they impacted by t... See more

Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more