American - Photographer | March 20, 1940 - May 25, 2015
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
Mary Ellen Mark
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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
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You don't need to retouch if you know how to light.
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I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.
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I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
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Reality is always extraordinary.
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I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
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I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
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I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.
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I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
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Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
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