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Mary Ellen Mark

1940 - 2015

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Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes". Mark had 21 collections of her work published, most notably Streetwise and Ward 81. Her work was exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide and widely published in Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Times, and Vanity Fair. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Ellen Mark is the 119th most popular photographer (down from 95th in 2019), the 8,357th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,801st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Mary Ellen Mark ranks 119 out of 148. Before her are Joel-Peter Witkin, Karl Struss, Rineke Dijkstra, Bert Stern, Thomas Struth, and Malick Sidibé. After her are Milton H. Greene, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, F. Holland Day, Lisette Model, Toni Frissell, and Françoise Demulder.

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Among people born in 1940, Mary Ellen Mark ranks 436. Before her are Barbara Boxer, Richard D. Ryder, Wolfgang Clement, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Michael Herr, and Fred Hansen. After her are Mary Beth Peil, Sotsha Dlamini, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, James Brady, Whitney Smith, and Reinhard Furrer. Among people deceased in 2015, Mary Ellen Mark ranks 365. Before her are Richard Meade, Dominique Dropsy, Gamal El-Ghitani, Gottfried Diener, Jayakanthan, and Bülent Ulusu. After her are Scott Weiland, Surya Bahadur Thapa, Saeed Jaffrey, Grace Lee Whitney, Jonah Lomu, and Hellmuth Karasek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Ellen Mark ranks 8,359 out of 20,380. Before her are Carl Osburn (1884), Robert Harron (1893), Nick Offerman (1970), Bruce M. Metzger (1914), Fred Hansen (1940), and John Van Ryn (1905). After her are Billy Campbell (1959), Thomas Mifflin (1744), Mary Beth Peil (1940), Sidney Franklin (1893), Mike Farrell (1939), and Lorenz Hart (1895).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Mary Ellen Mark ranks 32. Before her are William Eggleston (1939), Bob Guccione (1930), David Douglas Duncan (1916), Joel-Peter Witkin (1939), Karl Struss (1886), and Bert Stern (1929). After her are Milton H. Greene (1922), F. Holland Day (1864), Toni Frissell (1907), Sally Mann (1951), Garry Winogrand (1928), and Clarence Hudson White (1871).

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