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- Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
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Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
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She was drawn particularly to subjects whose lives play out within a troubled situation, such as addiction, poverty, or illness; and those who live in groups that function like a substitute family, such as inhabitants of a brothel or performers in a touring circus. The variety of her topics reflected the assignments offered to her by magazines and ...
Mark used a variety of different cameras and lenses to achieve her imagery, ranging from 35 mm to large-format 4×5. She used prime lenses and liked to work close to her subjects, preferring a wider field of view (between 24mm and 35mm). When working with the 35mm film format, Mark used a Leica M6 rangefinder camera, and the Canon EOS-1N with 24mm, ...
Disclaimer: Photogpedia is an Amazon Associate and earns from qualifying purchases. 1. The Book of Everything(It’s expensive but if you’re a fan of Mary Ellen Mark’s work, this is the only book you’ll ever need.) 2. On the Portrait and the Moment 3. An American Odyssey 1963-1999
Mary Ellen met Erin Blackwell in 1983 while photographing a LIFE magazine story about kids surviving on the streets of the Seattle. Mary Ellen and her husband Martin Bell returned to make the Oscar-nominated film Streetwise. They continued to document the lives of Erin and her children for over 30 years.
Nov 22, 2020 · It's been five years since filmmaker Martin Bell lost his wife and professional partner, documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark.
- Richard L. Harris
Mary Ellen Mark (born March 20, 1940, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died May 25, 2015, New York City, New York) was an American photojournalist whose compelling empathetic images, mostly in black and white, document the lives of marginalized people in the United States and other countries.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 26, 2015 · Mary Ellen Mark, whose unflinching yet compassionate depictions of prostitutes in Mumbai, homeless teenagers in Seattle and mental patients in a state institution in Oregon made her one of...
Mary Ellen Mark achieved worldwide renown as a documentary photographer for her unflinchingly honest and compassionate photographs of difficult subject matter, whether in the brothels of Mumbai or the streets of Seattle.
