"Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark" (1987)

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Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark (1987)

Her most memorable work documents the lives of the dispossessed; those deprived by birth of the rights and amenities most of us take for granted, touch her.

By Janis Bultman, Darkroom Photography, Jan-Feb Issue, 1987

It was the early Sixties. Mar

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It does take a tool on you, and it’s not something you ever forget. The people you’ve worked with, if they’ve meant something to you, are going to live with you forever. You also feel a tremendous amount of guilt because you’ve taken something from them. They’ve given you something great, and how can you ever repay them?