Mary ellen mark

Mary Ellen could see a story in the ordinary that another person might walk by and not even see.

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When it’s good and interesting it’s still that feeling of being on the street and wondering — God, I love this! — what’s going to happen next?”

Mary Ellen Mark is one of the world’s greatest and most influential documentary photographers. Next month, 65 years after she took her first photograph, she will be the recipient of the Sony World Photography “Outstanding Contribution to Photography” 2014 Award. What is it that earns a photographer such an esteemed accolade? Let's take a brief look at her work to find out. I

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Bringing together dozens of photographs that span the breadth of Mary Ellen Mark's career, Girlhood at The National Museum for Women in The Arts&...

30 years ago, Mary Ellen Mark captured Seattle’s child prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. A new book revisits that journey and sees where they are now

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark died on May 25, 2015 in New York City. In the tradition of American photographers Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White, Mary Ellen Mark traveled the world...

Mark often took personal interest in those she met and photographed. Learn about the photographer's relationships with several of her subjects, who she portrayed with empathy, humor, and candor.

Mary Frances in the tub, Ward 81, Salem, Oregon, 1976