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Photo: Mary Ellen Mark
Sean Penn in his dressing room for the Broadway production of "Slab Boys" in 1983.

«Film
Another Camera on the Set

By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Published: December 25, 2008

IN 1968, around the time she was focusing her lens on war protesters and transvestites in New York, Mary Ellen Mark took a job as a still photographer on the set of “Alice’s Restaurant,” directed by Arthur Penn. The work appealed to the documentarian and portrait artist in her, and it paid the bills.

More than 100 films later Ms. Mark culled thousands of images, both impromptu and staged, for her latest book, “Seen behind the scene/Forty years of photographing on set/Mary Ellen Mark” (Phaidon). Some of the images will be on view at the Staley-Wise Gallery in SoHo starting Jan. 9. “Film work is the best kind of commercial work,” she said. “When I’m on film sets, I’ve seen amazing people work, and I’ve learned some things.” (...)» IN THE NEW YORK TIMES.