Mary Ellen Mark

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Mary Ellen Mark (born 20th March, 1940) is an American Photographer known for her photojournalism, her portraiture, and her advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mark became a unit photographer on movie sets, shooting production stills for films including Arthus Penn's Alice's Restaurant (1969) and Mike Nichol's Catch-22 (1970) and Carnal Knowledge (1971), among her earliest. For Look magazine, she photographed federico fellini shooting his film atyricon (1969).Mark has since photographed on the sets of more than 100 movies, up through at least director Baz Lurhmann's Australia (2008).

Mark has contributed to publications including the magazines Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. As of 2009, she has published 16 books including:

Passport 1974,Ward 81 1979,

Falkland Road 1981), Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity in Calcutta 1985,

Streetwise 1992, Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years 1991,

Indian Circus 1993, Portraits 1995,

A Cry for Help 1996, Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey 1999,

Mary Ellen Mark 55 2001, Photo Poche: Mary Ellen Mark 2002,

Twins 2003, Mary Ellen Mark: Exposure 2005,

Extraordinary Child 2007 and Seen Behind the Scene 2008.

Mark's photography has addressed such social issues as homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution. She works primarily in Black & White.

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