Mary Ellen Mark: The Lives of Women
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Fundació Foto Colectania Passeig de Picasso 14, 08003 Barcelona
From the moment she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication in 1964 with a degree in photojournalism until her recent death just over fifty years later, Mary Ellen Mark worked as a documentary photographer making intensely vivid, groundbreaking photo essays exploring the realities of people in a variety of complex, often difficult situations. A large majority of these people were women.
Mark’s work predates today’s focus on the abuse and suffering of women highlighted by the #MeToo movement and others, with numerous projects extensively exploring the lives of women in difficult, painful, at times nearly impossible situations. A passionate witness, her life’s work was to use photography and film to delve deeply into the lives of others as a way of embracing their humanity and sharing it with a larger audience, providing her subjects with a significant, often powerful voice.
Mary Ellen Mark: The Lives of Women, collects photographs, films and material to explore the work that Mark did during the second half of the 20th century documenting a wide variety of women in diverse situations.
Exhibition curated by Anne Morin.
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