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- Mark Cohen (born August 24, 1943) is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography.
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Feb 17, 2014 · Mark Cohen was born in 1943 in Wilkes-Barre, a small Pennsylvania mining town. A figure of the street photography genre which dominated American photography in the early 1970s, he is also the inventor of a distinctive photographic language, marked by a fleeting arrangement of lines and, at the same time, an instinctive grasp of the organic ...
- Why you? Why did you get chosen for a lifetime behind the camera? “What we see is not made of what we see, but of what we are.” Fernando Pessoa.
- Street photography is experiencing a lot of popularity today. How were things in the 70s? Did you guys refer to yourselves as street photographers? I never met with any group of photographers.
- When you look back over a lifetime of photography, what about it most satisfies you? I think I am most calm and moved by a new print. I start to look for it as soon as the film is fixed.
- Much of your work is known for its “fragments” of people. How did you come about this style? I fell into that because of the psychological stimulation of the closeness on the street with the wide lenses.
MARK COHEN IS ONE OF the few contemporary photographers who appear to be retreating from the notion of propagating a consistent, logical, definable, closed style. Cohen utilizes images that are fundamentally “torn” from their contexts, more so than those of most photographers.
A figure of the street photography genre which dominated American photography in the early 1970s, he is also the inventor of a distinctive photographic language, marked by a fleeting arrangement of lines and, at the same time, an instinctive grasp of the organic, sculptural quality of forms.
Mark Cohen is the great outsider of street photography. During the 1970’s he developed a unique aesthetic, disconnected from the new street photography coming out of New York and brought to the forefront of the international community by the likes of Garry Winogrand and Joel Meyerowitz.
Aug 24, 2015 · Cohen’s new retrospective book, Frame, which the University of Texas Press will publish in October, traces his singular, gritty vision through more than three decades of images. As a teenager...
