MARY ELLEN MARK

Acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b.1940) has secured exclusive backstage access to some of the most famous actors and directors in film history .Captures life on the sets of legendary movies Apocalypse Now and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, as well more recent productions such as the Oscar-winning films Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd Includes powerful portraits of such celebrated actors as Marlon Brando, Catherine Deneuve, Jack Nicholson, Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp The photographers most popular and accessible work, these engaging, mostly unpublished, pictures provide a rare portrait of these larger-than-life personalities in unguarded moments Features texts by a range of high-profile film industry professionals, including Francis Ford Coppola, Helen Mirren and Alejandro Gonzlez Iñarritu, which include witty and revealing anecdotes about life behind the scenes .American photographer Mary Ellen Mark is one of the most prominent and provocative documentary photographers working today. Her pictures are a celebration of humanity in its most diverse and eccentric forms children yearning for adulthood, the poor and the destitute are some of her recurring themes. She has received an impressive number of awards and grants for her work, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and five honorary doctorates.

Voted by the readers of "American Photo" as the most influential woman photographer of all time, Mark now turns her eye and her heart to the extraordinary bond that exists between twins.

Retrospectiva de la carrera de Mary Ellen Mark (1940), respetada e influyente fotógrafa documentalista; esta magnífica edición incluye tanto imágenes célebres como inéditas.La propia Mark ha realizado una cuidadosa seleccion de imagenes de su archivo, ademas de colaborar en la organizacion de las fotografias y el diseño del libro Entre los temas que aborda el libro se cuentan desde un campamento para niños cancerosos en California hasta burdeles de Bombay, pasando por grupos de supremacia blanca de Idaho, guetos gitanos en España y otros muchos.Incluye imagenes tan emblematicas como las serios Falcland Road, Indian Circus y Twins. Introduccion a cargo de Weston Naef, acreditado critico de fotografia El texto de Mark dota de contexto a las fotografias y hace complice al lector de anectotas entre bastidores.

"• La cotizada fotógrafa Mary Ellen Mark (1940) ha tenido el privilegio de fotografiar entre bambalinas a los actores y los directores más célebres de todos los tiempos • Atrapa la vida en el plató d