Sunday, 9 April 2017

Who was Mary Ellen Mark ?

Who was Mary Ellen Mark ?

Options

1) Photographer

2) Singer

3) Actor

4) dancer

Answer

1) Photographer

Other Details

Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism / documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography

Mark had 18 collections of her work published, among them  Streetwise  and Ward 8 were well known

She was a member of Magnum Photos between 1977 and 1981

Awards 
three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
 the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House
and the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation.

Books: 

Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey
Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity in Calcutta. Friends of Photography, 1985.
Indian Circus. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993
Man and Beast: Photographs from Mexico and India