This great retrospective brings together 120 images taken over the past 35 years, and is the famous photographer’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to her work on America. It includes a number of photographs which have never been exhibited before and some of her best work over the years, from ‘Streetwise’ to ‘Beauty Pageants’, from ‘Rural Poverty’ to ‘Texas Rodeos’, from ‘The Damm Family’ to ‘Christian Bikers’. For the first time in Italy the exhibition will include 10 polaroids directly from Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York from the photographer’s most recent work, ‘Twins’.
With her inimitable ability to make her subjects into living icons, Mary Ellen Mark was recently nominated most influential female photographer of all time by American Photo Magazine readers.
Her penetrating vision with its great capacity for empathy is revealed in photographs ranging for portraits taken over the years of a ‘homeless’ family living in their car and the devastating lives of women in psychiatric hospitals, to the gigolos of Miami, transvestites, Halloween and spring celebrations, theme parties and graduation ceremonies: an overview of society in the USA.
This great retrospective brings together 120 images taken over the past 35 years, and is the famous photographer’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to her work on America. It includes a number of photographs which have never been exhibited before and some of her best work over the years, from ‘Streetwise’ to ‘Beauty Pageants’, from ‘Rural Poverty’ to ‘Texas Rodeos’, from ‘The Damm Family’ to ‘Christian Bikers’. For the first time in Italy the exhibition will include 10 polaroids directly from Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York from the photographer’s most recent work, ‘Twins’.
With her inimitable ability to make her subjects into living icons, Mary Ellen Mark was recently nominated most influential female photographer of all time by American Photo Magazine readers.
Her penetrating vision with its great capacity for empathy is revealed in photographs ranging for portraits taken over the years of a ‘homeless’ family living in their car and the devastating lives of women in psychiatric hospitals, to the gigolos of Miami, transvestites, Halloween and spring celebrations, theme parties and graduation ceremonies: an overview of society in the USA.