#Mary Ellen Mark photography

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Monday's Photography Inspiration - Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was an acclaimed American photographer renowned for her powerful, compassionate, and unflinching portrayal of marginalised communities. With a career spanning over four decades, Mark’s work explored a diverse array of subjects, including homelessness, mental illness, prostitution, and troubled youth, capturing her subjects with empathy and respect. Her photographs are…

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HALLOWEEN VIBES? -- HALLOWEEN MOOD? -- HALLOWEEN STYLE? PURE TIM BURTON.

NOTE: This shot has glaringly and embarrassingly been miscredited all over this website, and another reason I'm never in any rush to reblog damn near everyone on Tumblr. Fuck lazy posting. Just saying.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 745x1030 -- Spotlight on American filmmaker/visual artist Tim Burton, photographed with his muse & then fianceé Lisa Marie Smith, from the photo article "Mad Love: The Curious and Captivating Romance of Tim Burton & Lisa Marie," by Joe Rhodes, August 1997, "US Weekly" magazine, pp. 76-81. 📸: Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015).

Source: www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/u.

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Mary Ellen Mark American, 1940–2015 Santa takes a coffee break, 1964

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Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015), Craig Scarmardo and Cheyloh Mather at Boerne Rodeo. Texas, 1991.

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SELECTIONS from WARD 81 [2023] MARY ELLEN MARK | OREGON, 1976 [gelatin silver prints | U/D]

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Dustin Hoffman by Mary Ellen Mark, 1976

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(via The Very Best Photo Shows to See at Rencontres d’Arles 2024 | AnOther)

Mary Ellen Mark, Rekha with beads in her mouth, Falkland Road, Mumbai, India, 1978 

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🎅

Quand Santa Claus déjeune à Manhattan ,NYC 🗽USA 1963

Photo de Mary Ellen Mark

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Santas taking a coffee and cigarette break at Horn & Hardart during the 1962 & 1964, New York City Christmas Season.

Photos by Leonard McCombe.

Last photo by Mary Ellen Mark.

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Agnes Martin photographed by Mary Ellen Mark, Vogue, 1992.

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Tim Burton and Lisa Marie Smith in a photo by Mary Ellen Mark, 1997.

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(Pinterest TOS post- if this image is flagged here too it will just make my point even more concrete- that the sites we all frequent just want to erase literal reality)

So we all know censorship/TOS changes amongst the internet love to cause removal of LGBTQ+ content no matter if it’s “adult content” or not- Tumblr and Pinterest specifically come to mind.

These two websites remove content related to that demographic like it’s their fking drug of choice to do so.

And this pisses me off of course- having people be told their content is a violation just brings up the fact society thinks they’re a violation. They do this while allowing those bots that I won’t mention by name to swarm us in abundance.

But I don’t post queer content- I consume it, but have never been very involved in the internet community related to it. Yesterday, though it’s happened before, I felt what it’s like being told my experience is a violation, and this time something snapped inside of me:

Pinterest alerted me I violated their TOS of “adult content” with this image:

“Amanda and her cousin, Amy” by Mary Ellen Clark. 1990 Valdese, North Carolina

Let’s move past the fact their claiming two 9 year olds in bathing suits is “adult content” and look at the bigger picture- I violated their TOS by adding a photo to a board that was taken by a very well known photographer across the globe for street + social photography. A photo that doesn’t have any “adult content” in it, and instead is documenting the way a lot of kids outside of the pretty suburbs live.

The photographer of this photo documented children who lived lives most of you couldn’t even fathom; ones who sold themselves on the street and ones who had babies while the rest of their age group was playing Nintendo or chatting about George Michael’s hair at a sleepover.

I was so excited and in awe when I saw the photo above: for the very first time in my life, I saw a photo of two kids that reminded me of myself. The life I lived, while the rest of my age group lived in their pretty suburbia & had mommy + daddy home everyday to cater to their every need. I saw through not only this photo but many others in her series, my life in beautiful pictures- I never really realized I hadn’t until this moment.

This photo, and the others surrounding Mary Ellen Mark’s work, document the lives so many people/kids like me lived within: they document the reality typical society can’t bear to look at. God forbid you look at us and really take us in- we’re just oh so shameful, right?

Just like the LGBTQ+ content tumblr and Pinterest love to censor, remove, block- our lives fucking existed. Children like this? They existed and currently still exist. Just because it doesn’t fit your world view doesn’t mean you can remove it… maybe if sites left photos like this alone, someone could come along and go “wow… she’s like me” just as I had the opportunity to do. Maybe they could gain the opportunity to realize that they’re not shameful to society- they too, are just a part of it as the kids they go to school with.

For the first time in my life, my childhood was displayed in someone’s photography and for the first time, I didn’t feel so alone.

So fuck you Pinterest, and thank you Mary Ellen Mark💗

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Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master From 'Apocalypse Now'

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Esquire, 1976-1979

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Mary Ellen Mark (photographer) and Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now, 1979

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Mary Ellen Mark, March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015.

Amanda and her cousin Amy. Valdese, North Carolina, 1990.