Saturday 8 August 2015

Mary Ellen Mark - powerty is photogenic as fuck

Only just found her official web page ... I knew of her work for a long while, but didn't find her page beforehand.. I think her concepts are really cool, although of course for this time, terribly passe. And I can't imagine going to a mental asylum to photograph people at their most vulnerable. I would find that to be deeply unethical. Same as it would be to shoot bums and junkies - deeply unoriginal. She rocked that scene, though. And these are some good artickles, for future reading in case anyone gets turned on by cool street photies :D
Website:
http://www.maryellenmark.com/index.html

Article:
http://jezebel.com/my-favorite-photographer-mary-ellen-mark-has-died-1707018377?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Coverage:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/27/news/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-new-orleans-cnn/











Notice, and this is really funny (in a serious way), that she bounces the point of the photo from the golden section right to far left and at that exact moment the story kicks in. Awesome eye, really.

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