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Mary Ellen Mark

"Intimacy is very important in my photographs. Being a woman is often an advantage in enabling me to achieve this intimacy because people, especially strangers, are less threatened by women."

Mary Ellen Mark, excerpted from An American Odyssey 1963-1999, published by Aperture.

   

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MARY ELLEN MARK: WARD 81
DAMIANI
U.S. $50.00 | CAN $50
ISBN: 9788862080552 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/1/2008 | In stock

MARY ELLEN MARK: TWINS
APERTURE
U.S. $50.00 | CAN $50
ISBN: 9781931788199 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | In stock

    

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MARY ELLEN MARK: EXTRAORDINARY CHILD
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND
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ISBN: 9789979790143 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 11/1/2007 | Not available

MARY ELLEN MARK: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY 1963-1999
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9780893818807 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | Not available

Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

Foreword by Milos Forman. Text by Karen Folger Jacobs.
Published by Damiani

In 1975, photographer Mary Ellen Mark was assigned by The Pennsylvania Gazette to produce a story on the making of Milos Forman's film of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While on set, Mark met the women of Ward 81, the only locked hospital security ward for women in the state: The inmates were considered dangerous to themselves or to others. In February of 1976, just before the ward closed (it ceased to exist in November of 1977, when it became the female section of a coeducational treatment ward), Mark and Karen Folger Jacobs, a writer and social scientist, were given permission to make a more extended stay, living on the ward in order to photograph and interview the women. They spent 36 days on Ward 81, photographing and documenting. Jacobs recalls their slow, inevitable assimilation: "We felt the degeneration of our own bodies and the erosion of our self-confidence. We were horrified at the thought of what we might become after a year or two of confinement and therapy on Ward 81." This new hardcover edition adds 10 pictures to the original.

MARY ELLEN MARK: WARD 81
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Mary Ellen Mark: Twins

Interviews with Mary Ellen Mark.
Published by Aperture

Mary Ellen Mark, voted by the readers of American Photography as the most influential woman photographer of all time, has made some of America's most iconic images in a career spanning more than three decades. In Twins, her fourteenth publication, Mark turns her acute eye and her heart to the extraordinary bond that exists between these very special siblings.

MARY ELLEN MARK: TWINS
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