Who spent that evening with Marylin? Who captured the Tank Man in Tienanmen Square? Who took Kurt Cobain’s portrait two months before his death? For his book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends, photographer Tim Mantoani tracked down the masters behind some of our visual history’s most iconic images to rescue them from anonymity. Highlighted in Wired, here are just a few of the 150 portraits of famous photographers holding their famous photographs and sharing stories, like Steve McCurry searching for 17 years to find Sharbat Gula, the young, translucent-eyed girl from Pakistan, the star in his famous Kodachrome. Find out more about the project, but first, sift through these intentionally analog, enormous 20×24 Polaroid portraits and… respect!
Mark Seliger with his portrait of Kurt Cobain for Rolling Stone. Photo credit: Tim Mantoani
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Elliot Erwitt rules… everyone else was just lucky.
The girl in Steve McCurry’s photograph “Afghan Girl”, is not from Pakistan.
@DingDang – Can you comprehend, the written word?
“… young refugee from Afghanistan in Pakistan”
@barneylovesyou — It was amended, to clarify.
nice and magnifique surtout n5 i hope one day i well cn to do.
I remember this photo!!! fabulous! if this poor little girl had been born anywhere else, she would have been a super-model….drew her in art class in high school….”beautiful”!
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