Mary Ellen Mark (1940) is an American photographer that is world renowned for her exhibitions, magazine work and multiple books. She was born in Philadelphia and attended Cheltenham High School and eventually received her degree in art history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. She has traveled all over the world since then to capture human nature in it's "highest degree of humanism". She works primarily in black and white and her subjects are people around the world who exhibit a theme of either loneliness, drug abuse, prostitution, or homelessness. Her images are so famous because everyone everywhere can relate to them. These things exist all over the world, making her photographs relatable and iconic.
These images are just AMAZING!! These pictures are just truly expository; they shed light on cultures and people we don't normally think about. These pictures are so inspiring me, it makes you think about the people in them, what their lives are like.
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