Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
Mary Ellen Markwas an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were “away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes”.
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About the Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Markwas an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were “away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes”.
Mark had 21 collections of her work published, most notably Streetwise and Ward 81. Her work was exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide and widely published in Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Times, and Vanity Fair. She was a member of Magnum Photos between 1977 and 1981. She received numerous accolades, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House and the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation.
3 Quotes by Mary Ellen Mark
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Reality is always extraordinary.
Mary Ellen MarkAmerican photographer
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I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
Mary Ellen MarkAmerican photographer
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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
Mary Ellen MarkAmerican photographer