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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Marlon Brando with a beetle on his head, Apocalypse Now, Pagsanjan, Philippines, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.154
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Marlon Brando with towel, Apocalypse Now, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.156
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Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.155
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Martin Sheen taking a cigarette break, Apocalypse Now, Pagsanjan, Philippines, 1976
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.157
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Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, and Cher on the set of Silkwood, Texas, 1983
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.158
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Mike Nichols with Meryl Streep on the set of Silkwood, Texas, 1983
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.159
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Mother Teresa’s Missions of Charity, Calcutta, 1980
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.162
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Mother Teresa’s Missions of Charity, Calcutta, India, 1980
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.152
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National Circus of Vietnam, Lenin Park, Hanoi, 1994
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.138
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Sarah and Tina LaValley, 14 years old, Sarah older by 1 minute, Twinsburg, Ohio, 2001
Mary Ellen Mark
Dye diffusion transfer print
P2020.161
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Transvestite with Mask, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2009
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.160
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Veteran therapy animal Billy Boy, 25 years old, Blue Rider Stables, South Egremont, Massachusetts, 2012
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.134
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Yared, Kilma, and Areli, Circo Garzetti, Mexico City, 1997
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.164
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[Mother and Baby Hands], 1977
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.163
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[Victor and His Bicycle], 1978
Mary Ellen Mark
Gelatin silver print
P2020.165