An exhibition of photographs by Mary Ellen Mark is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery until June 18, 2016. Spanning the breadth of her dazzling career, Attitude: Portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, 1964–2015, celebrates nearly 40 of Mark’s most enduring images.
Mary Ellen Mark, who passed away last year, is known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, and notably, her portraiture. The exhibition surveys highlights from many of her series including Indian Circus, humorous and bizarre shots of performers and contortionists and their animals from India’s liveliest circuses; and Falkland Road, gritty images of prostitutes and their patrons on a notorious street in Bombay. Selections from Twins and Prom explore – in large format Polaroids – siblings at the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, and prom-goers across the U.S. Images from Mark’s work for LIFE magazine about the Damms, a homeless family in California, express the grim reality of survival on spare change and welfare checks.
Also on view work from Streetwise, which portrays homeless and troubled youth in Seattle including a girl named Tiny. Work from Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, her series completed in 2015, encapsulates Mark’s 30-plus years photographing Tiny, now a middle-aged mother of ten. Mark also photographed on film sets and is known for her celebrity portraits including images of Marlon Brando, Sean Penn, Woody Allen, and Yoko Ono.
EXHIBITION
ATTITUDE – Portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, 1964–2015
curated by Melissa Harris
From May 5th to June 18th, 2016
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1406
New York, NY 10022
United States
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