Best quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on Life
Checkout quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on Life
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‟ The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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‟ I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?
- Mary Ellen Mark