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About The Artist
The images of Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) are icons of documentary and humanistic photography. Mark’s more than 20 books include Passport (1974), Falkland Road (1981) and Indian Circus (1993). Her 2015 book Tiny: Streetwise Revisited is a culmination of 32 years documenting Erin Blackwell (Tiny), who featured in Martin Bell’s 1985 film Streetwise and Mark’s 1988 book of the same name.
A dedicated social documentarian and portraitist, she often turned her lens to marginalized communities – circus performers in India, street children in Seattle, the patients of Ward 81, and many others – invariably connecting profoundly with her subjects. Mark’s work has been exhibited and published in magazines worldwide.
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Specifics
Charles Hagen (Editor): Mary Ellen Mark (Phaidon, 2007).
Source: https://archive.org/details/maryellenmark0000hage.
Related: Mary Ellen Mark / Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. Books on Internet Archive are offered in many formats, including DAISY files intended for print disabled people. The list of my favorite photobooks on the Internet Archive you find here.
