Mary Ellen Mark: Portraits And Portrayals
Another #GREAT #photographer bites the dust. Legendary Philadelphia-born photographer Mary Ellen Mark, 75, has died. Mary Ellen Mark was a photographer known for her incredible humanist photography. She passed away Monday in New York City. Her rep confirmed the news this morning. RIP Mary Ellen Mark. Your inspiration, wit, humor, and unique artistic view of the world will be missed.
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark was one of the most respected and influential image makers of our time. Mary Ellen Mark ‘s work photographing diverse cultures across the globe has become iconic in the field of documentary photography and portraiture. Mary Ellen Mark has received a Cornell Capa Award , the Infinity Award for Journalism, the Photographer of the Year Award from the Friends of Photography; the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; the Victor Hasselblad Cover Award; two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three National Endowment for the Arts awards. It was a well earned, and highly deserved haul.
Mary Ellen Mark photo essays and portraits have exhibited globally, featured in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, and published in eighteen books. In addition, Mary Ellen Mark has photographed advertising campaigns for Barnes and Noble, British Levis, Coach Bags, Eileen Fisher, Hasselblad, Heineken, Keds, Mass Mutual, Nissan, and Patek Philippe among many others.
Mary Ellen Mark
March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015
This lecture is part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Distinguished Speaker Series. Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger student body at the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities.
All presentations take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, please visit: art-design.umich.edu/stamps
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