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Photographer Focus: Mary Ellen Mark
Born, March 20, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Social documentary has always been the major part of my
photography. I take pictures of people and most of the
people I photograph are not famous.
photography. I take pictures of people and most of the
people I photograph are not famous.
Working commercially for magazines, film companies and
advertising agencies enables me to support myself and my
personal work. Recently more than ever, assignments from the
magazines are about taking portraits of the famous. Over the
years I’ve learned how hard it is to make a great portrait
of a well-known person. By great, I mean a photograph that
can transcend the familiarity of someone’s renowned face. A
portrait of a person (famous or not famous) works if it
tells me something very personal and insightful about the
subject. This, of course, must be accompanied by beautiful
light and perfect graphics. A really powerful portrait can
uncover secrets about a person.
The trend in today’s celebrity photography is for the
photographer to be totally conceptual. This is often easier
for the famous subject because well known people are more
cautious and less willing to expose their real
personalities. It’s far less revealing to hide behind
someone else’s theatrical fantasy. The result is a formula
that can be graphic and slick but seldom gives any insight
into the real personality of the celebrity. At the end of
the week or month the magazine is thrown away and the
portrait is forgotten.
People who are not known are much different to
photograph. They’re not used to the camera. They trust more
and give more. You can look into their souls and reveal
their secrets. It is difficult but definitely possible to
make powerful and honest images of the famous.
Editing my photographs for this book was an interesting
experience. I have collected some of my portraits of the
celebrated and paired them with my portraits of ordinary
people. I’m trying to perceive a relationship between
photographs of the famous and the not famous. I’m also
comparing pictures to see if images of the famed can be as
candid and as lasting as images of the “unfamed” and if so,
which ones and why so. I’m looking for answers and trying to
learn.
Photography continues to fascinate me. I’m sure that I’ll
take pictures for the rest of my life. Hopefully I’ll
continue to grow as a photographer and make stronger and
stronger photographs of the famous as well as the not
famous.”
Mary Ellen Mark
Monday May 29,1995
New York City
Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah
Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper,
resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in
1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary.
Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the
Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured
and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Her mother Catherine witnessed
the entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her
advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate
attempt to save Hannah. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family
archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and
photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.
Daughter of a migrant Tennessee coal miner living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California.
"Pobre de aquel
que aún mirando nada ve,
que aún sintiendo nada siente,
y aún entendiendo nada entiende
pobre, pobre de aquel…"
Martínez Ares – La Niña de mis ojos
"Seven hungry children. Father is native Californian. Destitute
in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These
people had just sold their tires to buy food." — Field Notes by
Dorothea Lange, Nipomo, California, March 1936 on "Migrant Mother"
"I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by
a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to
her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures,
working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her
name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She
said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding
fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires
from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her
children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might
help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.
Sigur rós consists of jón þor (jónsi) birgisson (vocals, guitars),
kjartan (kjarri) sveinsson (keyboards), orri páll dýrason (drums) and
georg (goggi) holm (bass). the band were formed by jónsi, georg and
original drummer ágúst in 1994. they were later joined by kjartan and
when ægúst left the band after the recording of ágætis byrjun in order
to pursue a career in graphic design, he was replaced by orri.
sigur
rós hail from iceland, and rightly claim to bring you the beautiful
landscape of their homeland with their music. it’s impossible to fully
justify it with words, so the best advice would be to check out the
media page and listen to some tracks from their astonishing back
catalogue.
"El duro regreso a casa"
Serie "Norte"
Carlos Ort.
"Genesis del valor"
Serie "Al Sur"
Carlos Ort.
Serie "Al Sur"
Carlos Ort.
Con el hallazgo de unos restos arqueológicos durante la construcción de
una urbanización de lujo en Sanlúcar de Barrameda, arranca esta
fascinante novela que le seducirá desde sus primeras líneas. Alejandro,
un tímido librero de Cádiz, sólo tiene por amigo a un viejo marinero,
el Corcho, que cuenta leyendas de antiguas ciudades sumergidas mientras
bebe en las tabernas de la Caleta gaditana. Un estudio científico, que
asegura que se avecina una nueva glaciación y que desmonta la común
creencia del calentamiento global, modifica los planes de expansión de
una importante empresa constructora, desatando una guerra por acumular
suelo. Mientras, la naturaleza parece encolerizada con los hombres que
la golpean. Y, como telón de fondo, el mito de la más grande, poderosa
y mágica de todas las civilizaciones.
1ª Parte
Divenire; Convertirse.
Fechas:
13-14-15 de Marzo de
2009
Lugar: CÓRDOBA (en el Hotel Maciá Alfaros)
PROGRAMA DEL TALLER
Viernes 13 de Marzo (16 a 21 h)
Elementos de trabajo en la captura digital
Capturar la luz
digitalmente
Novedades Photoshop CS4
Sábado 14 de Marzo (9 a 14
h)
Salida
práctica con recorrido fotográfico por las calles de CÓRDOBA
Sábado 14 de Marzo (16 a 20
h)
El
revelado del archivo digital
La conversión a B&N
Domingo 15 de Marzo (10 a 14 h y 16 a 20
h)
El
laboratorio digital. Procesos de edición y optimización de archivos
digitales
La máscara de enfoque
Recursos personales para la edición de
archivos digitales
La Isla de Eva - Liv 