MEM - M n M's and Mery Ellen Mark

rich kids by lauren greenfield

white rhodesian women by marry ellen mark

some things are great. some tmies they are great and tastty too.

but like all things that are good, or sweet and amke you fell good, like MnM's, you can have too many of them. i guess when you eat MnM's you know when they too sweet thing is comming and you have ease back and drink some milk. marry ellen mark is kinda like this too. only in the inherint american cuture of art school agendas where serius means cheerfull and dlighted, there is no room for quality and sence. marry ellen mark makes perfect sence in each and every picture. her books are a landmark in photography worldwide. they look good but they are also just plain good. they make a lasting visual impression, they make you think, they make you look.

from some poeple here, in america, this is too much. after the initial glance, their eyes turned to be glazed and they seemingly loose intrestet as it is too sweet. the memory is short. a once celebrated artist is now long forgotten dubbed as irrelevant and corrupt.

newer younger poeple with the same agenda and stylistic antics is percived as the best and gloriuos. even though it would be hard to find any disssimalareties between lauren greenfield and marry ellen mark (except for where they come from and how much money they had in the begining) MeM is B A D, and Lauren Greenfield the new world superstar of beautifull documentary photograhpy, with a jurnalistic style in art, is just AWSOME.

what a fucking waste.

Merry ellen marks work, will and is just good. with no surplus value added post addendum.

lauren greenfield rides the waves of momentum with sentimentality that means absolutly nothing, and even less in her photographes.

Q: Why do you like Tri-X film?

Mary Ellen: I like the grain structure in Tri-X film. I also like that Tri-X has a huge range especially when you rate it at 200. Tri-X is very much a part of the look of my photographs.

Mary Ellen: Most photographers that I really admire are still shooting film. I've shot with Tri-X for more than 45 years and the look of my images has to do with that film stock. Shooting digitally doesn't quite fit in with what I do. I love the look of Tri-X and it's taken me years to understand what it does.