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There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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#Better
#Distance
#Respect
#Way
What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Emotions
#Experience
#Feelings
#Trying
I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Always
#Children
#Looking
#See
#Side
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Look
#More
#Picture
#Seen
#Something
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#About
#Before
#Beginning
#Dream
#Travel
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Human Condition
#Human
#Life
#People
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Computers
#Photography
#Really
#Shots
In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Look
#Morning
#Scholarship
#Up
#Walk
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Any
#Circus
#Romantic
#Something
#Street
It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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#Chance
#Good
#Great
#Opportunity
I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Love
#Make
#Mexico
#Rescue
#Streets
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Life
#Looking
#Me
#Moment
#My Own
I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Dogs
#Incredible
#Kind
#Relationship
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Connection
#Curiosity
#Me
#Never
#Others
I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Image
#Machine
#Need
#Painting
#Writing
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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#Favorite
#I Wish
#Wish
#Work
Reality is always extraordinary.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Always
#Extraordinary
#Reality
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Finding
#Interested
#Irony
#Reality
I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Best
#Feel
#Find
#People
#Society
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Ideas
#Live
#People
#Society
#Work
I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Day
#Dreams
#Future
#Never Forget
#Youth
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#More
#Nothing
#Reality
#Than
#World
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
- Mary Ellen Mark
#Black And White
#Black
#See
#White
#Work
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