Tag: Mary Ellen Mark

  • A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-ellen-mark-the-book-of-everything/ “Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty…

  • 15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture

    15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-photographers-on-how-imagination-shapes-their-work/ From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence…

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: "Mary Ellen Mark with Constance Sullivan (1990)"

    Link: To me a documentary photographer and a photojournalist are pretty much the same thing. If I have to make a distinction, I’m more a documentary photographer–I don’t think of myself as a photo-essayist in the sense that I always consider a magazine layout when I’m working. To be honest with you, I always try…

  • Mary Ellen Mark on Iconic Images

    Link: It’s not every day you get to hang out with a living legend of the photographic world and watch her do what she does best. That’s exactly what we were fortunate enough to do when we spent a day in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park with an icon of documentary photography, Mary Ellen…

  • Legendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75

    Legendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75

    Legendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75 There’s some very sad news in the world of photography today: renowned American photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away yesterday in New York City at the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/05/26/legendary-photographer-mary-ellen-mark-dies-at-75/ Needless to say, the world of photography has just lost one of its biggest stars.

  • Mary Ellen Mark, Leica Shooter, Dies at 75 | La Vida Leica!

    Those in the Leica circle are no stranger to the name Mary Ellen Mark. It is with great sadness that we must inform our readers that she has passed… She was 75. Time has an article entitled, “In Memoriam: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015)” that’s worth a read. She was an avid Leica shooter,…

  • Death of Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) – The Eye of Photography

    Link: “There is no demand for reality anymore”. – Mary Ellen Mark, April 27, 2015

  • Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark – The New York Times

    Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark – The New York Times

    Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/attitude-portraits-by-mary-ellen-mark/ Mary Ellen Mark often photographed individuals who, despite being on the fringes of society, projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. They…

  • Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark

    Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark

    Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark The award-winning photographer Souvid Datta found himself in the middle of a controversy this week when his photo of a young sex trafficking victim was via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/03/photographer-souvid-datta-appears-plagiarized-mary-ellen-mark/ We’ve reached out to Datta for comment but have yet to hear back. It appears that his…

  • Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Workshop: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Vantage — Medium

    Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Workshop: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Vantage — Medium

    Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Workshop: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The final Oaxaca Workshop wasn’t picture-perfect, but the parting photobook it produced will outlast bad memories. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/mary-ellen-mark-the-book-821d97010e2c The beloved photographer’s final Oaxaca Workshop wasn’t picture-perfect, but the parting photobook it produced outshines, and will outlast, bad memories

  • The Fearless Gaze of Mary Ellen Mark: A Friend Remembered | PROOF

    The Fearless Gaze of Mary Ellen Mark: A Friend Remembered 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 myriad of ways. In 1988 she photographed a story for National Geographic via Photography:…

  • Mary Ellen Mark, Photographer and Force of Nature – NYTimes.com

    Mary Ellen Mark, Photographer and Force of Nature – NYTimes.com

    Mary Ellen Mark, Photographer and Force of Nature Mary Ellen Mark, a trailblazing documentary photographer, could find the essence of a subject by relying on her passion and drive, keeping things simple but deeply honest. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-and-force-of-nature/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Melissa Harris, the editor in chief at Aperture, who edited two books with Ms. Mark and…

  • Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) in The New Yorker – The New Yorker

    Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) in The New Yorker – The New Yorker

    Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) in The New Yorker Mark, who died on Monday, was fierce in her love of photography, and her love extended to the people she worked with. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mary-ellen-mark-1940-2015 Her love extended to the people she worked with: to her staff, her subjects, her students, and the other photographers in…

  • In Memoriam: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) | TIME

    In Memoriam: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) Mary Ellen Mark has died. She was 75. via Time: http://time.com/3896572/mary-ellen-mark-dies-at-75/ The American photographer produced some of the most “delicately shaded studies of vulnerability ever set on film”

  • Remembering Iconic Photographer Mary Ellen Mark – Feature Shoot

    Remembering Iconic Photographer Mary Ellen Mark – Feature Shoot

    Remembering Iconic Photographer Mary Ellen Mark – Feature Shoot Back in 2005, when I thought I wanted to be a photographer, I took a few classes at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in NYC. One was a lighting class taught by one of Mary Ellen Mark’s previous assistants (who had since moved on to…

  • Mary Ellen Mark, 75: Her book, Man and Beast: Photographs from Mexico and India | NPPA

    Mary Ellen Mark, 75: Her book, Man and Beast: Photographs from Mexico and India Photographer Mary Ellen Mark, 75, died yesterday, on Memorial Day, as confirmed today by a family representative. The legendary photographer is survived by her husband, filmmaker Martin Bell. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/mary-ellen-mark-75-her-book-man-and-beast-photographs-mexico-and-india Mary Ellen Mark, 75, died yesterday, on Memorial Day, as…

  • Mary Ellen Mark talks to Alison Stieven-Taylor – The Eye of Photography

    Mary Ellen Mark talks to Alison Stieven-Taylor “Magazines are not interested in work that is very personal. They want work that can be changed with a grey or blue filter in post-production. If young photographers are interested in what I was, in telling stories, they have to pursue that. Don’t let technology push you around”.

  • Meet New York’s Most Famous Street Photographers

    Meet New York’s Most Famous Street Photographers

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/02/26/new-york-street-photographers/#1 Why is it that some photographers take to the studio, while others take to the street? Is street photography photojournalism, art — or both? These are some of the questions raised by Everybody Street, a new documentary chronicling the life and work…

  • Mary Ellen Mark

    Link: NEWSLINK – Winter 2014 I think what photography can do is open up all sorts of lives for people — worlds that people couldn’t understand. Some of the very dramatic pictures people have done, particularly of wars, the Vietnam war especially (because access was better), made people aware of how horrible it was –…

  • A Very Doggy Christmas: Mary Ellen Mark’s Legendary Canine Party

    A Very Doggy Christmas: Mary Ellen Mark’s Legendary Canine Party

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/19/a-very-doggy-christmas-mary-ellen-marks-legendary-canine-party/#1 For those who don’t know Mary Ellen Mark personally, the notion of one of the world’s premier documentary photographers hosting a Christmas party for dogs might sound downright weird. But for the past decade, Mark has opened the doors of her…