Mary Ellen Mark Biography
Mary Ellen Mark (Philadelphia, March 20, 1940 – New York, May 25, 2015) was an American photographer. She is known for her portraits and for her work in advertising and photojournalism. Sixteen collections of his works have been exhibited in various galleries and museums around the world. He has received numerous honors including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mary Ellen Mark was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began taking photographs at the age of nine with a Box Brownie. He studied at Cheltenham High School and later at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor's degree in painting and art history. In 1964 he specialized in photojournalism with a Master's degree at the Annenberg School for Communication and, the following year, he obtained a scholarship to photograph in Turkey for a year. During this stay he also had the opportunity to visit and take photos in England, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain. In 1966 he moved to New York, where for several years he photographed demonstrations over Viet Nam, women's liberation movements, homosexual culture and Times Square. Mary E. Mark was a still photographer in the film industry on various sets, including: Alice's Restaurant (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Apocalypse Now (1979). For Look' magazine he worked on the set of Federico Fellini's film Satyricon (1969). In total he has worked on the sets of more than 100 films, among the latest is Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008). In the publishing field he has worked for Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and his photos have been exhibited all over the world.
