Tag: Mary Ellen Mark
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Mary Ellen Mark: Nothing More Extraordinary than Reality
Link: Mary Ellen Mark: Nothing More Extraordinary than Reality « The Leica Camera Mary Ellen Mark is a renowned, award-winning photographer. Her work has spanned over 40 years with exhibits all over the world including “Leica: My First Camera” that premiered at the opening of Leica Store and Gallery Los Angeles in June 2013 and…
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Almost Human: Mary Ellen Mark’s Photos of Animals
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/19/almost-human-mary-ellen-marks-photos-of-animals/#1 “I don’t relax,” Mark has said. “I can’t take vacations. I’m obsessive-compulsive and I worry with every project that I’m going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being…
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Mary Ellen Mark Documents the Prom
Link: Lens Nearly half a century after her own prom night, Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, went to 13 proms across the United States from 2006 to 2009 for their project “Prom.”
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LOOK3 Preview: Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali Headline Fest Curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode
Substantial exhibitions of the work of Nan Goldin, Massimo Vitali and Antonin Kratochvil are the major highlights, and the three artists will also talk about their work, with Goldin appearing in a unique conversation with Sally Mann. In addition the festival will feature “Master’s Talks” and exhibitions by Christopher Anderson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ashley Gilbertson,…
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"Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark" (1987)
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 via AMERICAN SUBURB X:…
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Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)”: Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer who believes that her strongest essay will be her next one. In a sense, all her work is one journey to that “best” story, which she may never reach or let herself acknowledge. She works with an edge, a…
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Wooster Collective: USA Network Brings Together 11 World-Renowned Photographers For Character Project
In addition to Mary Ellen Mark, the project features new work by Sylvia Plachy as well as Dawoud Bey, Jeff Dunas, David Eustace, Eric Ogden and emerging talents Marla Rutherford, Anna Mia Davidson, Joe Fornabaio, Eric McNatt and Richard Renaldi. Check it out here.
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On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark
“When you’re working on a film, it’s almost like photographing paintings at a museum,” says Mary Ellen Mark, now 68 and dressed entirely in black, with twin braids over her shoulders. “You’re photographing somebody else’s world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what…
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photo-eye | Magazine — Ward 81
Mary Ellen Mark has the rare ability to make her empathy visible. I believe, but cannot prove, that this is rooted in how she connects to her subjects. The photographic artifact is proof of that connection. This is not rooted in photographic skill or artistry—Avedon did not have it, nor does Penn, and I very…
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5B4: Ward 81 by Mary Ellen Mark
Recently the publisher Damiani released a new edition of Mary Ellen Mark’s 1979 book Ward 81 Check it out here.
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These Aren't Your Everyday Prom Polaroids – washingtonpost.com
On April 26, Mary Ellen Mark and her entourage of assistants set up a makeshift photo studio in a small room next to the school’s gymnasium. Mark is working on a three-year project called “Prom.” Charlottesville High was the seventh of 12 schools she is photographing. Next weekend, Mark will speak at the Look3 Festival…
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The Web This Morning
What I clicked: Sundance: Good, Bad, Ugly Sundance: Paradox Oprah vs. Frey Mary Ellen Mark photographs JT Leroy Robben Island, photographed by Anton Kratochvil