Photographer Mary Ellen Mark, Famed Chronicler of Hollywood, Dies at 75

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Mary Ellen Mark, famed photojournalist and humanist photographer, died May 25 in New York City her rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 75.

 

“Mary Ellen touched so many people throughout the world. We all celebrate her fierce and passionate spirit,” her rep said in a statement.

 

Born in Philadelphia, Mark studied art history and painting from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s in photojournalism from Penn’s Annenberg School of Communication in 1964.

 

Over the course of her career, she published 16 collections of her work and regularly contributed to publications such as Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Life. She has also served as a still photographer on sets for multiple films including Catch-22 (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (2008).

 

 

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One of the great photojournalists of our time.

 

This one has always been one of my favorites:

 

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RIP