Mary Ellen Mark

Tiny Over the Years

On view: October 2 – 31, 2006

This exhibition focuses on the story of Tiny (Erin Blackwell) from Mary Ellen Mark’s Streetwise, a documentary on Seattle’s runaway children that started in the eighties.

Lecture with Mary Ellen Mark

October 7, 2006 6:30pm

Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. For more than three decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of the most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world’s diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary and portrait photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India . Recently, Mary Ellen was presented with the Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography. She has published fourteen books. Her most recent project is entitled Twins, a book and exhibition, featuring her 20×24 Polaroid portraits of twins. www.maryellenmark.com