A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
March 20, 1940
Died:
May 25, 2015
MARY ELLEN MARK achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. For over five decades, she traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. She is recognized as one of our most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India. A photo essay on runaway children in Seattle became the basis of the academy award nominated film STREETWISE, directed and photographed by her husband, Martin Bell.
Additional Photography:
2010 Iconoclast
Producer:
1992 American Heart
1993 Circus of Dreams
1995 The Amazing Plastic Lady
2010 Iconoclast
2016 Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
2021 Streetwise Revisited: Rat
Still Photographer:
1971 Carnal Knowledge
1976 The Missouri Breaks
1988 A Matter of Trust: Billy Joel in the USSR
1992 American Heart
1993 Circus of Dreams
1995 The Amazing Plastic Lady
2003 Big Fish
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2008 Australia
2010 Iconoclast
2011 Carrière, 250 Meters
2016 Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
2021 Streetwise Revisited: Rat
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.