The Lives of Women

Mary Ellen Mark, Laurie in the bathtub, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, USA 1976 © Mary Ellen Mark

The American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) is one of the most important representatives of humanist, committed photography in the 20th century. From the 1960s onwards, she portrayed the lives of people on the margins of society with great sensitivity and empathy. Her groundbreaking reportages, which she published in magazines such as Life, Rolling Stone and Stern, usually […]

The Lives of Women

Mary Ellen Mark, Laurie in the bathtub, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, USA 1976 © Mary Ellen Mark

The American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) is one of the most important representatives of humanist, committed photography in the 20th century. From the 1960s onwards, she portrayed the lives of people on the margins of society with great sensitivity and empathy. Her groundbreaking reportages, which she published in magazines such as Life, Rolling Stone and Stern, usually […]

The art of seeing

Ernst Haas (1921 Vienna – 1986 New York) is one of the outstanding proponents of photojournalism in the 20th century and a pioneer of colour photo-graphy.

Exhibition tour with curator Fabian Knierimplease register with info@westlicht.com