Mark Cohen’s Close-Up Street Photography Cohen’s work starts in the moment that most people would look away. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mark-cohens-close-up-street-photography Cohen pioneered an aggressive, if not invasive, approach to his craft, shortening the distance between photographer and subject until heads were lost to the frame’s edge and only collar bones and clipped limbs…
Frame, A Retrospective by Mark Cohen With over two hundred and fifty images, Frame is the first career retrospective of street photographer Mark Cohen, whose hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, provided the subject of gritty visual poetry
Striking and Surreptitious Photos That Capture the Grit of Pennsylvania in the ’70s Many people who’ve been photographed by Mark Cohen probably never saw him coming. For years, on the streets of his home city, Wilkes-Barre,… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/24/frame_published_by_university_of_texas_press_is_mark_cohen_s_career_retrospective.html Many people who’ve been photographed by Mark Cohen probably never saw him coming. For years,…
Pictures on the Street? It’s Complicated Mark Cohen has found that his love of taking up-close of pictures of strangers isn’t always requited. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/pictures-on-the-street-its-complicated/ After 40 wonderful years, Mark Cohen has abruptly ended his relationship with his muse. It might seem like cold betrayal, but it’s really more complicated than that.
Bright Flash, Small City The giants of street photography tend to be drawn to large, glamorous cities. Not so for Mark Cohen, who has been taking quirky, off-putting photos of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for his whole life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/mark-cohens-bright-flash-small-city/ “He has lived in the down-on-its-luck small city in northeast Pennsylvania for 69 years —…
