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What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.
Mary Ellen Mark -
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
Mary Ellen Mark
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I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.
Mary Ellen Mark -
What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
Mary Ellen Mark -
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
Mary Ellen Mark -
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
Mary Ellen Mark -
In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special.
Mary Ellen Mark -
In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
Mary Ellen Mark