INTERVIEW: “Mary Ellen Mark with Constance Sullivan” (1990)

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Interview by Constance Sullivan CS: You’ve been described as both a documentary photographer and a photojournalist. Do you make a distinction between the two? MARY ELLEN MARK: I have never known the difference between one and the other. To me a documentary photographer and a photojournalist are pretty much the same thing. If I have to make a distinction, I’m more a documentary photographer–I don’t think of myself as a…

INTERVIEW: “Mary Ellen Mark with Constance Sullivan” (1990)

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Chuck Close” (1987)

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INTERVIEW: “Interview with Chuck Close” (1987)

INTERVIEW: “Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark” (1987)

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By Janis Bultman, Darkroom Photography, Jan-Feb Issue, 1987 It was the early Sixties. Mary Ellen Mark was a graduate student, studying painting at the University of Pennsylvania. On a whim, she decided to take a course in photography. She picked up a Leica. Then she abandoned the brush forever and took to the streets. Mark earned a degree in photojournalism in 1964 and a year later won a Fulbright to photograph in Turkey. In 1969, she landed t…

INTERVIEW: “Street Shooter – An Interview with Mary Ellen Mark” (1987)

MARK KLETT: “Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape” (2001)

Another Look At The West – View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape Afterimage, July, 2001 by Stephen Longmire We now view landscape photographs, both past and present, much like the shadows on the walls of Plato’s cave. They are artifacts of what we think we know about the land, and how we have come to know it. On the strength of his first published body of photographs, Mark Klett could easily have pa…

MARK KLETT: “Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape” (2001)

 
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