Seen Behind the Scene

Description

Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as what the film studios call a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than the conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s such as "Fellini's Satyricon", to legendary 1970s productions like Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", as well as films from the ensuing decades that range from "Network" to "Tootsie", from "Gandhi" to "Showgirls". She continues to work on film sets and over the last decade has photographed recent Oscar-winning productions such as Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge", Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel" and Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd".Over her career, Mark has been given unprecedented access to the film sets she has worked on, roaming freely among cast and directors, and photographing in make-up, during rehearsals, on the set and off the set to provide a full picture of life behind the scenes.

Author description

Acclaimed American documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b. 1940) became well known after her photographs of Bombay brothels were published in 1981 in Falkland Road, a book that became legendaty and confirmed her status as one of the most prominent and provocative documentary photographers working today. Her pictures are a celebration of humanity in its most diverse and eccentric forms - circuses, gypsy camps, children yearning for adulthood, the poor and the destitute are some of her recurring themes. Mark has the unique ability to capture gestures and expressions that translate the intense emotions of her subjects. She has received an impressive number of awards and grants for her work, including three National Endowment for Art grants, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and five honorary doctorates. Mark has been photographing on film sets throughout her career and is afforded unprecedented access on film sets by the many directors who appreciate her work producing rare behind the scenes images of some of the most famous figures in film history. She herself has drawn inspiration in her own work from the many fine directors, set designers, cinematographers and other crew she has herself watched - and photographed - at work. Mark lives in New York City.

Table of contents

Introduction by Mary Ellen Markc. 250 black and white photographsShort texts by a range of film industry professionals, including: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director/producer (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores perros) Buck Henry, actor/writer (Catch 22, The Graduate) Candice Bergen, actress (Gandhi, Carnal Knowledge) Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer (Fellini Satyricon, Amarcord) Helen Mirren, actress (The Queen) James Ivory, director (The Remains of the Day, Howards End, A Room with a View) Jeff Bridges, actor (The Big Lebowski, American Heart, The Fisher King) John Irving, writer (The Cider House Rules) Martin Bell, director, writer (American Heart, Streetwise) Mike Nichols, director/producer (Charlie Wilson's War, Biloxi Blues, Carnal Knowledge, Catch 22, The Graduate) Milos Forman, director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Hair) Richard Gladstein, producer (The Bourne Identity, Reservoir Dogs, The Cider House Rules) Robert Downey Jr, actor (Fur, Chaplin, Natural Born Killers) Sofia Coppola, director/actress (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, The Godfather Part III) Zanuck, producer (All About Eve)

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780714848471
• Publisher : Phaidon Press Ltd
• Imprint : Phaidon Press Ltd
• Publication date : October 2008
• Dimensions : 290mm X 214mm X 33mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : illustrations
• Pages : 264
• Dewey classification : 779.092
• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Mary Ellen Mark