one of my favourite among her work
Mary Ellen Mark has worked as a photojournalist for around 30 years, travelling worldwide and being published in leading magazines around the globe. Mary Ellen Mark began working for Look and Life magazines in the 1960s. She has since created photo essays for a broad range of news and fashion periodicals including Esquire, Holiday, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Stern, and Paris-Match. She was a member of Magnum for some years, resigning in 1981 to create her own company. She was voted "Most Influential Woman Photographer" in a recent poll of American Photo readers.
Having conceived the idea for many of the articles herself, Mark often returns to subjects (and places) for an extended period, producing book-length documentary projects. Her most well-recognized subjects include Mother Teresa and the Mission of Charity in India: the inmates of Ward 81, a locked ward for women at Oregon State Mental Hospital; prostitutes on Falkland Road in Bombay; and members of an Indian circus.
Mark photographs people, often people who are living on the edge of society. The works included in Mary Ellen Mark: In American, in the Bell Gallery collection, concentrate primarily on subsections of the middle and lower-middle classes: Christian bikers in Arizona, retirees in South Beach Florida, the Latin community in Miami.
Her pictures also show the women as individuals, and illustrate her ability to get close to people. She showed them and their emotions directly and without sentimentality in a series of moving pictures. Another essay from the 70s that was widely published was on customers in singles bars in New York.
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Acrobat Sleeping. Great Famous Circus, Calcutta, India, 1989
learn more about her at http://www.maryellenmark.com/
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