Voyeurism: Paris

A whole day to roam.....

Streetwise: Documentary Photography of Mary Ellen Mark

If you haven't been to the exhibition at the Getty, Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties, I recommend you check that stuff out.  All of it is hard to take in in gulp and I felt pretty exhausted after processing what I could of it.  The stuff that really grabbed me was the work of Mary Ellen Mark--a documentary photographer for Life Magazine.  Her photographs of runaways on the streets of Seattle straddle a fine line between objective and subjective photography--questioning the basic assumption that news and information are best delivered in ways that strive toward neutrality and negate mediation.  She comments on the basic commonality of human experience, as all good photographers should!! 

She was only one of the great photographers on display.  Go see it if you live in LA.  

-n.

Tiny