i don't know if this has ever happened to anyone else, but during a photography project, i just couldn't stop researching...
we had to do a bio on a photographer, and i decided to do mine on Mary Ellen Mark i was trying to remember her name and it was killing me that i couldn't remember it...
...so i found my project on this computer haha.
her photography was based on emotionalism, and i just couldn't get enough of her stories or photography!
here's a copy and paste of my summary about her:
"Mary Ellen Mark came from an unstable family and had a father who went in and out of the hospital all the time. Life for her was lonely and isolated; by age eight, she told herself she was getting out. Later in her life, her father was put into a mental institution for depression, which made Mark’s interest for mentally ill people grow. Soon, Mark would be handed a full scholarship to Annenberg School for Communication (at a unit of Penn). She greatly thanks Gilbert Seldes (first Dean of Penn) for the scholarship and remembers two great teachers from the school that influenced her. Lou Glessman who taught visual communications and Lou Barlow who taught TV.
A photographer who is considered a photojournalist and portraitist captured homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution all behind her lens did it in a form of Emotionalism. World events that many people aren’t aware of, but Mark helped to raise awareness for. She liked taking pictures of teens best because their emotions were so transparent. Even though she bonded with the people she photographed, a child prostitute and drug addict named “Tiny” was a 13-year-old girl Mark thought about adopting. She didn’t want to leave the streets, but brought Mark closer to her subjects".
“Mary Ellen Mark.” Wikipedia. 15 November 2007. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 12 January 2008 < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mary_ellen_mark>.
Vettese, John. “Mary Ellen Mark: Biography.” Mary Ellen Mark. 2001. Photography @ Temple. 13 January 2008 <http://www.temple.edu.photo/photographers/mark/biography.html>.
Biberman, Jane. “Through a Lens Compassionately.” Pennsylvania Gazette Feb. 1992
Bell, Martin. Zooming in on Mary Ellen Mark
Mark, Ellen Mary. Laurie in a Ward 81 bathtub. Salem, Oregon. 1976.
Mark, Ellen Mary. Tiny. Seattle. 1983.
Mark, Ellen Mary. Students picking flower at a Special School for the Blind Children No. 5 in Kiev. Ukraine. 1987.
A photographer who is considered a photojournalist and portraitist captured homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution all behind her lens did it in a form of Emotionalism. World events that many people aren’t aware of, but Mark helped to raise awareness for. She liked taking pictures of teens best because their emotions were so transparent. Even though she bonded with the people she photographed, a child prostitute and drug addict named “Tiny” was a 13-year-old girl Mark thought about adopting. She didn’t want to leave the streets, but brought Mark closer to her subjects".
“Mary Ellen Mark.” Wikipedia. 15 November 2007. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 12 January 2008 < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mary_ellen_mark>.
Vettese, John. “Mary Ellen Mark: Biography.” Mary Ellen Mark. 2001. Photography @ Temple. 13 January 2008 <http://www.temple.edu.photo/photographers/mark/biography.html>.
Biberman, Jane. “Through a Lens Compassionately.” Pennsylvania Gazette Feb. 1992
Bell, Martin. Zooming in on Mary Ellen Mark
Mark, Ellen Mary. Laurie in a Ward 81 bathtub. Salem, Oregon. 1976.
Mark, Ellen Mary. Tiny. Seattle. 1983.
Mark, Ellen Mary. Students picking flower at a Special School for the Blind Children No. 5 in Kiev. Ukraine. 1987.
to me, it's so brave to be face-to-face w/an interest like she does...
like any photographer does...
and get sooo close to their subjects during such hard times
and still take natural pictures with real meaning
both figuratively and literally.
what she captures is what i call art.
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