Mary Ellen Mark

I still have.

I have a lot of her prints named Mary Ellen Mark.

And Mary Ellen Mark... was a brilliant photographer, and she would go to Mexico and have a workshop.

And I just, in my schedule, never had time.

And then I was signed up for her, a workshop, and she died like a few months before.

Well, [chuckles] funny, I just gave a book to someone today.

Uh, it's Prom by Mary Ellen Mark, which is a beautiful photo book.

Mary Ellen Mark, if, you know, anyone doesn't know, is one of the great documentary photographers of all time, and she was a dear and close friend of mine and a big mentor.

You know, and another one that I give that, for people sort of exploring photography is, uh, Gypsies by Joseph Koudelka.

He's a, uh, a Magnum photographer, and, you know, he really, like, captured the European gypsies.

Mm.

You know, and that's the same psychiatric ward decades earlier Mary Ellen Mark did, Ward 81.

So for me, those are very moving images, and I would hope anyone looking at the book would see, like, there's many ways about, ways visually to interpret what's going on in the world, and I think that is the success of the book.

There's some extraordinary names in here, and I feel very blessed to have talked to some of the names that I'm gonna mention.

Excellent.

Yeah, so, uh, some of the, yeah, some of the books that I've, I've got that I didn't mention, I've got, um, books by, a book by Mary Ellen Mark, which is, uh, which is a great book.

Yeah.

Um, I, um, I saw her, uh, do a talk at the, um, uh, photography show of, of- ... a few years ago.

A book.

It's one I bought years ago called Mary Ellen Mark Encounters.

And it is...

Oh, one of the best overview slash introduction, uh, to, uh, to a photographer's work.

Mary Ellen Mark, as you may know, is very, was a very famous American photographer.

Um, she's hard to pigeonhole.

She did social documentary.

Not enough

Oh, no, it's, it's kinda, you know.

Um, so anyhow, I, I do love taking pictures, but it's, it's like Jim Marshall, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, um, Mary Ellen Mark.

These are people, and more, but these are people whose work I admire so much.

And photo books is the b- best way.