Mary Ellen Mark

The artist I chose to emulate is Mary Ellen Mark. She has a large range of work, though she focuses mainly on portraiture. Initially, the pictures I was studying were people in relation to their environments (the beach, New York City, mental institutions, etc..). I later found that her work extends to encompass extensive photos of celebrities. In all of her portraits, she is carefully revealing something about her subject. At times, it is related to their environment, though in other instances she focuses only on the people, without an integral background. Many of her pictures use the environment as way to clarify the person she is capturing. For this reason, her compositions are often unique, as to include signs or images behind the subject. Mary Ellen Mark studied at University of Pennsylvania for both Undergrad and Grad school. She has won many awards, grants and honorary degrees.


http://www.maryellenmark.com/

Mary Ellen Mark

Coney Island. Brooklyn, New York. 2002.

Coney Island. Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. 1994.

Duke Ellington. Manhattan, New York. 1973.

Halloween. Manhattan, New York. 2005.

Santa Claus standing by a bus. Manhattan, New York. 1964.

Toni Morrison. Manhattan, New York. 1988.

My Images

Acrylic

Colored Pencil

Spray paint... but it's sort of a bad picture...

Spray Paint, ink and tissue paper

I've never taken photography before, but this is colored film in a 35mm camera

Untitled by Alexey Titarenko

Titarenko, Alexey. Untitled, (Crowd 3), 1992. 1992. Alexey Titarenko. Web. 12 

     Sept. 2011. <http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/city5.html>.

William S. Burroughs by Annie Leibovitz

Leibovitz, Annie. William S. Burroughs. N.d. Educational Broadcasting 

     Corporation. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ 

     americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/photo-gallery/19/>.

Nude, 1934

Weston, Edward. Nude, 1934 (161N). 1934. Edward-Weston.com. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. 

     <http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_nudes_18.htm>.

Identical Twins by Diane Arbus

Arbus, Diane. Identical Twins. 1967. National Museum Wales. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. 

     <http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=3631>.