| Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81Foreword by Milos Forman. Text by Karen Folger Jacobs.
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. | |  |
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ISBN: 9788862080552
FORMAT: Hardback, 13 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 85 duotone.
PUBLISHER: Damiani
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/1/2008 | Active
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| Mary Ellen Mark: Extraordinary Child Disabled Children In IcelandForeword by Margaret Hallgrimsdottir. Introduction by Mary Ellen Mark. Text by Einar Falur Ingólfsson.
This book accompanies an international traveling exhibition of pictures by the acclaimed American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, made during the summer of 2006, and depicting disabled school-aged children in Reykjavik, Iceland. Most of the 70-some photographs were made at special schools, often during swimming lessons, but some were also made at the childrens' homes. Deeply moving, poignant, sad and joyous, these photographs take us into a reality that adjoins our own, but is very seldom seen. The pride and fear, the sheer effort, that Mark captures in these intensely human studies, can be difficult to bear. In addition to Mark's work, this volume contains 15 photographs of the empty schools by renowned Icelandic photographer Ivar Brynjolfsson, as well as 20 paintings by the children.
Over the past three decades, Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as Life and the New York Times Magazine. | |  |
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ISBN: 9789979790143
FORMAT: Paperback, 10 x 12.25 in. / 144 pgs / 15 color / 85 b&w
PUBLISHER: National Museum of Iceland
PUBLICATION DATE: 11/1/2007 | Active
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| Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road Prostitutes of BombayPhotographs by Mary Ellen Mark.
Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their color. Together with Mark's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of insight into a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the completeness of the photographer's involvement, by her humanity, and by the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still abide there. | |  |
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ISBN: 9783865211286
FORMAT: Clothbound, 12.75 x 11.25 in. / 106 pgs / 65 color.
PUBLISHER: Steidl
PUBLICATION DATE: 1/15/2006 | Active
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| Mary Ellen Mark: TwinsInterviews with Mary Ellen Mark.
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. | |  |
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ISBN: 9781931788199
FORMAT: Hardcover, 10.5 x 13 in. / 96 pgs / 83 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHER: Aperture
PUBLICATION DATE: 6/15/2005 | Active
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| Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey 1963-1999Poetry by Maya Angelou.
Mark works in a classic documentary mode: her work imprints itself on viewers in the way that only great photography can. --Harpers Bazaar
Recently voted by the readers of American Photography as their favorite woman photographer of all time, Mary Ellen Mark has made some of America's most iconic photographs. She is unsurpassed at shaping both the odd and the everyday into genuinely surprising photographs that subtly yet powerfully challenge our preconceptions or intensify our convictions. Mary Ellen Mark's poetic and at times disquieting photographs form a fascinating portrait of a complex, amusing, and occasionally unsettling country and its people. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00
ISBN: 9780893818807
FORMAT: Hardcover, 10.5 x 12.25 in. / 152 pgs / 144 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHER: Aperture
PUBLICATION DATE: 6/15/2005 | Out of print
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