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Mary Ellen Mark A Slide Lecture Covering Her Entire Career 530PM Thursday September 30 Seating is limited. First come, first served. B1 Meyerson Free tickets will be available at the door at 4PM. Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo essays and portraits in The New Yorker, LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. She has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Her images of the world’s cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India. Her photo essay on runaway children in Seattle became the basis of the Academy Award nominated film Streetwise (1984), directed and photographed by her husband, Martin Bell. Mark is the recipient of many awards and grants including the Cornell Capa Award, the Infinity Award for Journalism, an Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and a Walter Annenberg Grant for her book and exhibition project on America. Among her other awards are the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Matrix Award for an outstanding woman in the field of film/photography, and the Dr. Erich Salomon Award for outstanding merits in the field of journalistic photography. She was also presented with honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from her Alma Mater, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts; three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Photographer of the Year Award from the Friends of Photography; the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; the Victor Hasselblad Cover Award; two Robert F. Kennedy Awards; and the Creative Arts Award Citation for Photography at Brandeis University. She has published sixteen books including Passport (1974), Ward 81 (1979 and 2008), Falkland Road (1981), Mother Teresa’s Mission of Charity in Calcutta (1985), The Photo Essay: Photographers at Work (A Smithsonian series), Streetwise (1992), Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years (1991), Indian Circus (1993), Portraits (1995 and 1997), A Cry for Help (1996), Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey (1999), Mary Ellen Mark 55 (2001), Photo Poche: Mary Ellen Mark (2002), Twins (2003), Exposure (2005), and Extraordinary Child (2007). She also acted as the associate producer of the major motion picture, American Heart (1992), directed by Martin Bell. Her most recent book, Seen Behind the Scene (2008), is a collection of photographs of renowned actors, directors, and writers on the sets of celebrated films like Apocalypse Now, Tootsie, and Babel. The University of Pennsylvania’s Residency Program is made possible by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts. The Spiegel Fund creates and supports a series of coordinated interdisciplinary courses, programs and events. Photo: ©2010, James Carbone. Design: David Comberg MARY ELLEN MARK ELLEN MARY can be both a portrait and a documentary image. documentary a and portrait a both be can very aware of the camera. Sometimes a photograph photograph a Sometimes camera. the of aware very photographed. In portraiture, the subject is usually usually is subject the portraiture, In photographed. the essence of the person or persons being being persons or person the of essence the frame. Great portrait photography captures captures photography portrait Great frame. photography captures a precise moment in one one in moment precise a captures photography portrait photographer. Great documentary documentary Great photographer. portrait a and photographer documentary a both am I For more information: 215-573-5134 215-573-5134 information: more For 19104 Philadelphia PA 200 South 36th Street Fine Arts Hall The Charles Addams Program Department of Fine Arts Undergraduate School of Design of Pennsylvania University Mary Ellen Mark A Slide Lecture Covering Her Entire Career 530PM Thursday September 30 B1 Meyerson Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Free tickets will be available at the door at 4PM on September 30. The University of Pennsylvania’s Residency Program is made possible by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts. The Spiegel Fund creates and supports a series of coordinated interdisciplinary courses, programs and events. .