Bibliograph

Man and beast, photographs from Mexico and India, Mary Ellen Mark ; interview by Melissa Harris

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Man and beast, photographs from Mexico and India, Mary Ellen Mark ; interview by Melissa Harris

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Man and beast

Oclc number

855263757

Responsibility statement

Mary Ellen Mark ; interview by Melissa Harris

Series statement

Southwestern & Mexican photography series

Sub title

photographs from Mexico and India

Summary

Man and Beast presents an extended photo essay comprising images from Mexico and India that span some forty years. Many of the Indian images were taken while Mark was working on her classic book Indian Circus (1983), but most of the photographs have never been previously published. Infused with an unsentimental poignancy and a fully intentional anthropomorphism, Mark's photographs of animals, circus performers, children, and others are sometimes ironic, occasionally unsettling, but always remarkably engaging. Accompanying the images are a photographer's statement and a conversation between Mark and Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture Foundation, covering Mark's lifelong passion for animals, her experiences photographing them in circuses with their trainers, and her efforts to portray the humanity of animals and the lurking beast within humans

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