Tag: mary ellen mark

  • 24 (More) Lessons Mary Ellen Mark Has Taught Me About Street Photography

    24 (More) Lessons Mary Ellen Mark Has Taught Me About Street Photography

    Read as a Google Doc (where you can suggest edits, and also download as a PDF). I recently came across the excellent book: “Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment”, an educational workshop book published by Aperture, at the home of my friend Brian Sparks. Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer who endlessly inspires me,…

  • 8 Lessons Mary Ellen Mark Has Taught Me About Street Photography

    8 Lessons Mary Ellen Mark Has Taught Me About Street Photography

    All photos copyrighted by Mary Ellen Mark. I remember when I first saw the work of Mary Ellen Mark, I was blown away. Her work had such a deep sense of love and empathy for her subjects. Not only that, but her compositions and framing was brilliant. I always noticed that around the edges of…