PHO150 Digital Photography: Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark's subject is people, those lost on the unexplored fringes of life: the dying inside Mother Theresa's hospices, prostitutes in Bombay, autistic children, patients on a mental ward. This is a collection of her photographs.

One of today's foremost photojournalists, with work in Life, Stern, and National Geographic, Mark has become known for her particularly sensitive vision as she addresses places, people, events, and issues many would prefer to ignore.

Long noted for her sympathetic yet unsentimentally revealing photographs of those who live at the furthest reaches of society, Mary Ellen Mark here pairs images of the world's homeless and alienated with portraits of world-famous actors, musicians, writers, and other celebrities.

Gathers photographs of runaway children living in the streets of Seattle and includes their comments on how they live.

From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Arbus, Goldin, Lange, Cunningham, Cindy Sherman and Annie Leibovitz, to far less known figures, this book celebrates the role women have had in shaping photography's vision.

This book features portraits of 50 legendary 20th-century photographers. It is a homage to masters of the art of photography whose work has made history and influenced the art of later generations of photographers.

Presents a detailed history of Magnum, founded in 1947 by four dedicated photographers, which has sent its illustrious members out into the world for five decades to capture many of the twentieth century's most enduring images on film.

In association with the Chrisler Museum Bringing together the words & images of seventy-five of the world's greatest photographers, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, & Sally Mann.

Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the world's great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. From Frank Hurley’s groundbreaking World War I battlefield shots to Mary Ellen Mark’s stark portraits of American poverty and James Nachtwey’s haunting pictures of the September 11 attacks, the images in this book prove that even in our era of twenty-four-hour video-on demand, the still photograph remains as powerful as ever.

Documentary photographers explore the crucial issues and events of our time. Building on the traditions and passions of their predecessors, they are devising new strategies to address the obstacles and opportunities created by rapid media changes and intensified cross-cultural contact.

Assembled from public and private collections the world over, the extraordinary images presented in this volume reflect the work of 73 women photographers from the mid-19th century to the present. They range from such early Victorian pioneers as Lady Clementina Hawarden to the recent work of Cindy Sherman, reconstructing a virtual pantheon. Each photographer is represented by several examples of her work, eliciting a gamut of emotions from the viewer--cerebral admiration in the case of Margaret Bourke-White's shots of technology; horror in response to Lee Miller's depiction of the liberated Dachau concentration camp.