Mary Ellen Mark Quotes & Sayings

21 most famous Mary Ellen Mark quotes and sayings (photographer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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.”

“Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.”

“I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.”

“I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.”

“I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.”

“Reality is always extraordinary.”

“I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.”

“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”

“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.”