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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".
Mary Ellen Mark . Encounters debuted at C/O Berlin in 2023. This retrospective exhibition will be mounted at Foundation Vincent van Gogh in Arles this summer from July 1 to September 29, 2024.
Nov 22, 2020 · Mary Ellen Mark/The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. It's been five years since filmmaker Martin Bell lost his wife and professional partner, documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark.
Aug 7, 2021 · Mary Ellen Mark has made some of America’s most iconic photographs and is widely considered one of the most important documentary photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Mark was fearless in her choice of subjects, photographing people on the fringes of society, or in her own words, those “that didn’t have the lucky ...
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.
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer best known for her documentary images of 1960’s counterculture. Her work highlighted Vietnam War protesters and societal outcasts in order to underscore their importance to contemporary society.
NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW. Ward 81 (1979), Mary Ellen Mark’s first personal project conceived as a book, has been expanded and redesigned. Ward 81 Voices includes excerpts from interviews with patients and recorded conversations between Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs, previously unpublished photographs, and essays from Folger Jacobs, Max ...
May 29, 2015 · Iconic documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away on Monday, May 25. She was well known for her penetrating work and for the number of photographers’ lives she touched in a...
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 the...
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.
