Steve McCurry

Anthony Bannon is Director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. He has curated an exhibition on McCurry's Tibetan works and his publications include Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo (1981).

• Portrait of the photographer * 4,000-word essay by a high-profile commentator on the subject * 55 photographs presented chronologically over 110 pages (1 photograph per spread, with a concise commentary) * brief chronology of the photographer

'McCurry can make the hellish look heavenly … incredible photographs that change the way we look at our world … haunting and provocative images.' (The Sunday Times Magazine)