New copy in original shrink-wrap - never opened. English Language Hardcover Edition: 320 x 280mm; 152 pages .
"Because she is so intensely involved with her subjects, because she gets
to know them intimately, because she loves them, she often reveals in one
single shot their history, their emotions, their souls. .. . But what makes
Mary Ellen unique is her compassion. She never puts down the people she
photographs. She is moved by them; she shares their suffering, their difi
culties, their contradictions. .. . What amazes me is Mary Ellen's tremen-
dous energy, her commitment to her work. . .. Never satisfied, she is on
an endless quest for the universal beyond the particular. In my field they
say you're as good as your last film. / always answer that I am aS good
as my next film. I feel close to Mary Ellen because she only looks forward.
Her work is always in progress"
-Louis Malle, Rolling Stone, 1991
"Mark works in a classic documentary mode: her work imprints itself on viewers in the way that only great photography can." --Harpers Bazaar
Recently voted by the readers of American Photography as their favorite woman photographer of all time, Mary Ellen Mark has made some of America's most iconic photographs. She is unsurpassed at shaping both the odd and the everyday into genuinely surprising photographs that subtly yet powerfully challenge our preconceptions or intensify our convictions. Mary Ellen Mark's poetic and at times disquieting photographs form a fascinating portrait of a complex, amusing, and occasionally unsettling country and its people.