Mary Ellen Mark
Creator Details
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Birth
Mar. 20, 1940 (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)
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Death
May 25, 2015 (New York, New York)
Mary Ellen Mark’s career in photojournalism took her to countries such as Turkey, Mexico, and India as well as to urban and rural locations throughout the United States. Her work, best known for its humanistic and documentary qualities, features a wide range of subjects: from missionary work and scenes of economic disenfranchisement to political demonstrations and portraits of circus performers and Hollywood stars. Mark's photographs most prominently circulated in LIFE magazine and in photobooks devoted to her work including Passport (1974) and Streetwise (1988). In 2014, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, awarded Mark the Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award.
Artworks
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Amanda and Her Cousin Amy, Valdese, North Carolina, USA, 1990
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.146
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Anna Deavere Smith, Los Angeles, 1993
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.133
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Anti-Vietnam War demonstration, New York City, 1968
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.141
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Bombay, 1974
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.132
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Cher on the set of "Silkwood," Texas, 1983
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.137
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Chrystal and Virginia Demery, Lumberton, North Carolina, 1994
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.143
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Circus Acrobat, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2005
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.145
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Cynthia Galves, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1996
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.140
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Emily Perrin and Patrick Intolubbe-Chmil, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2008
Mary Ellen Mark
Dye diffusion transfer print
P2020.142
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Francis Ford Coppola directing Apocalypse Now, Pagsanjan, Philippines, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.139
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Francis Ford Coppola sheltering himself from the rain, Apocalypse Now, Pagsanjan, Philippines, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.144
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Gay Pride Parade, New York City, 1998
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.153
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Gregory Peck with two young extras, Old Gringo, Mexico City, Mexico, 1988
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.147
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Henry Miller and Twinka, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1975
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.148
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James Cagney on the set of Ragtime, London, England, 1981
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.150
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Jeanette & Puppy on Mattress, Brooklyn, New York, 1978
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.151
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Julie d’Aquili, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Big and Beautiful New Year’s Eve party, Long Island, New York, 1995
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.131
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Jumbo Circus, Mangalore, 1989
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.135
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KKK rally, Polaski, Tennessee, 1994
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.136
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Lindsay (7), Isaac (7), and Emily Lowell (teacher), Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1990
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.149