SIGNED; Mary Ellen Mark - Ward 81 (LIKE NEW AND UNREAD) - 2008

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VERY IMPORTANT BOOK OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY by great American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015).

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Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) was one of the first female members of "Magnum Photos".
She left "Magnum Photos" in 1981 to start her own studio and take full control of her work.

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In 1975, The Pennsylvania Gazette asked Mary Ellen Mark to make a photo-reportage on the filming of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, which director Milos Forman was then shooting entirely on location at the Oregon State Hospital. That's where the photographer came in touch with the women of Ward 81, a maximum-security unit created within the hospital in order to house women who were deemed dangerous to themselves or to the community. In February 1976 - one year before the ward was definitely closed - Mary Ellen Mark, together with writer and psychiatrist Karen Folger Jacobs, spent a whole month in the facility to document the patients' daily lives.

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Damiani, Bologna. 2008. Second edition.

Hardcover (as issued). 305 x 230 mm. 112 pages. Photos: Mary Ellen Mark. Graphic layout: Lorenzo Tugnoli. Printed by Grafiche Damiani, Bologna. Introduction: Milos Forman. Text: Karen Folger Jacobs. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside new, mint, unread; only opened once for the signature. Outside very fresh; marginal trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Impressive, important photobook by Mary Ellen Mark in wonderful fresh condition - signed by the artist.

Mary Ellen Mark is also famous for "Bombay Falkland Road": The Open Book, The Hasselblad Center, page 324/325. 802 photo books from the M. + M. Auer collection, page 634.

"Thirty years after the publication of the volume, which gathered their work, Ward 81 - a reportage of deep human as well as documentary impact - is being reissued by Damiani. Mary Ellen Mark, born in 1940, has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous editorial magazine work. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. For over four decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism such as her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and brothels in Bombay. Among her most important awards, Mark was presented with the Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography (2001) and was awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1994). She has published sixteen books."
(from the publisher)