The work of Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) bears witness to her fascination with the human condition and her gift for connecting intimately with her subjects. Skilled at blending into unusual or insular environments, she traveled all over the world and forged a body of work that combined photo-journalism with portraiture. From Indian circus performers to American teenagers living on the streets, from Hollywood film sets to inmates in a locked psychiatric facility, her photographs are striking for their humanity and empathy.
Reviews
An economical way to build a library of great photography. Each of the 50 books in the series focuses on a single photographer and features 60-plus pictures, an essay, a biography and a bibliography. The pictures are perfectly readable in spite of their small size; the selections are retrospective, so readers get bits of each artist’s entire career.
— William Meyers, The Wall Street Journal
Contributors
Caroline Bénichou
Author
Caroline Bénichou worked at Delpire Éditeur for over ten years, where she was the editorial coordinator of books on Étienne- Jules Marey, Michael Ackerman, William Klein, and Robert Capa, as well as multiple titles in the Photofile series. She has worked at Galerie VU’ since 2013
