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Mary Ellen Mark featured in The Washington Post.
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Read a profile of Mary Ellen Mark, one of the most influential women photographers of all time, and her ongoing Prom series in The Washington Post here. Mark uses a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera for this project.
CULTURE — ART FEATURE —
The rite stuff: Mark's captivating prom dates
by LAURA PARSONS
A teenage prostitute wearing a veiled Jackie O. pillbox hat. A young Indian circus performer gazing out from between her own feet. Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's most celebrated images offer riveting portraits of people living on the fringes of society.
But what's this? Her McGuffey Art Center exhibition features portraits of prom dates? Could anything be more mainstream than a posed prom picture?
No-- and that's Mark's point. "It's so American," she said, discussing her fascination with the high school ritual during her Festival of the Photograph appearance at the Paramount. "I kind of want the pictures to seem mundane."
But viewed through the lens of Mark's camera, the ordinary always reveals itself as extraordinary. The 20" x 24" black-and-white Polaroid portraits that make up "Prom" effervesce with the energy of youth, its beauty, its vulnerability, its quicksilver vacillation between confidence and insecurity.
For this series, Mark traveled to 12 different proms, including Charlottesville High School's, selecting attendees who seemed to reflect, in that microcosmic moment, something about our country as a diverse macrocosm— the prom as "melting pot," where for one night everyone participates in the American dream, looking good and living large.
Although Mark's forthcoming book about the project will include the couples' personal stories, the portraits at McGuffey stand on their own, free from concrete details. This lack of backstory prods viewers to project their own ideas onto the subtle drama Mark conveys in her posed yet evocative images.
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008 ... -0726.aspx
PROM
A recently completed long-term project of portraits made with the 20x24 Polaroid camera as seen in People Magazine:
 
Jania Sims & Khalif White, Malcolm X Shabazz Prom, May 18, 2006
Julianna McHugh & Griffin Wright, Cheltenham Prom, June 6, 2006
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These Aren't Your Everyday Prom Polaroids
Famed Photographer Captures American Vibe In High School Images
By Rachel Beckman
Washington Post Staff Writer
 
Mark's portrait of Shane Kammauff and Jenna Zschaebitz.
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark talks to prom couple Rickelya Johnson and Paul Hedrick, left;
Mark's unusual Polaroid camera weighs 600 pounds.
On April 26, Mary Ellen Mark and her entourage of assistants set up a makeshift photo studio in a small room next to the school's gymnasium. Mark is working on a three-year project called "Prom." Charlottesville High was the seventh of 12 schools she is photographing.
Next weekend, Mark will speak at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph here, where her Charlottesville photos will be on display.
"Prom is a slice of Americana for me," Mark said. "You learn about a culture and how different racial groups bring their own style to prom."
…The lights flashed and the photo technicians rushed to grab the enormous 20-by-24-inch black-and-white Polaroid print from the 600-pound oversize camera. After 90 seconds, a buzzer announced that the photo was finished. In the image, Johnson and Hedrick's intertwined fingers stand out as a mesmerizing contrast in skin colors, like a segment of piano keys.
"It's almost ghostly," Mark said. "They're great, aren't they?"
Mark, 68, has made a career of photographing the famous and the un-famous. Her pictures of celebrities (Johnny Depp, Maya Angelou and Sarah Jessica Parker to name a few) appear in publications such as the New Yorker, the New York Times and Rolling Stone. But her social-documentary photographs are the heart of her work, including mental patients in Oregon, circus performers in India and refugees in Ethiopia. One of her most famous images, taken in 1983, is of a 13-year-old Seattle prostitute named Tiny.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 04166.html
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