Tonight: An Evening with Mary Ellen Mark in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)


Mary Ellen Mark Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org


Mary Ellen Mark is one of the most respected and loved documentary photographers in the world. Her photographs of world cultures, subcultures, and personalities are landmarks in the field. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous photo-essays and portraits in such magazines as The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Stern, Details, Allure, Rolling Stone, Vogue, US, Life, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. For almost three decades she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Mark, a socially committed photographer, who continues to make images of passion and integrity, has been the recipient of the Cornell Capa Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, ICP’s Infinity Award for Journalism, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark has published fourteen books including the most recent Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, (Phaidon, November 2008), Falkland Road, Mother Teresa’s Mission of Charity in Calcutta, A Cry for Help, Indian Circus, Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years, American Odyssey, and Twins. Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC represents her work. Her website is www.maryellenmark.com