For nearly 50 years, when high-profile films needed a highly accomplished photographer to shoot behind-the-scenes stills, they turned to Mary Ellen Mark.
Known for her harrowing yet openhearted images of street kids, sex workers and others living on society’s margins, she also became one of Hollywood's most sought-after set photographers, documenting more than 100 films, fromThe Day of the Locust and Apocalypse Now to On Golden Pond and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Mark died in 2015, at 75, but her storied career is chronicled in The Book of Everything(Steidl), a new and extraordinarily thorough retrospective that, while 880 pages, somehow manages to feel as intimate as a diary peek.
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