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I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

~Mary Ellen Mark

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Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

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If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

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Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

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I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

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I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

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I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

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When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

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When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

~Mary Ellen Mark

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: March 20th, 1940

Died: May 25th, 2015

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