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Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs - Brief Article
ArtForum, May, 2000 by Carol Squiers
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
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Mary Ellen Mark is the Diane Arbus of narrative documentary verite. Like Arbus, Mark photographs the forgotten and the marginalized, the show-offs and the disastrously narcissistic. But, unlike Arbus, she makes empathetic picture stories as well as single portraits. In this 141-print show (accompanied by a handsome catalogue), curators Michael E. Hoffman and Melissa Harris focus on Mark's American work since 1963, which includes homeless families, Christian bikers, beauty contestants, Aryan separatists, transvestite paradegoers, and pet lovers. May 13-Aug. 6; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Aug. 26- Nov. 5; International Center of Photography, New York, Mar.31- June 10, 2001; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, July 15- Sept. 9, 2001.
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