Mary Ellen Mark (born March 20, 1940 - 25 May 2015) is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mary Ellen Mark was born in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] and began photographing with a Box Brownie camera at age nine. She attended Cheltenham High School,[1] where she was head cheerleader and exhibited a knack for painting and drawing. She received a BFA degree in painting and art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and a Masters Degree in photojournalism from that university's Annenberg School for Communication in 1964.[2] The following year, Mark received a Fulbright Scholarshipto photograph in Turkey for a year.[2] While there, she also traveled to photograph England, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Spain ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Mark
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