Seen Behind The Scene

Seen Behind The Scene

Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting new book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s, such as Fellini'sSatyricon, to legendary 1970s productions like Francis Ford Coppola'sApocalypse Now and Milos Forman'sOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as well as films from the ensuing decades, ranging fromNetwork toTootsie, fromGandhi toShowgirls. She continues to work on film sets and over the last decade has photographed recent Oscar-winning productions such as Baz Luhrmann'sMoulin Rouge, Alejandro Gonzalez I