Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over a hundred film sets since 1968, including such legendary productions as Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Gandhi,as well as recent Oscar-winning productions such as Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd, among many others. Mark's film photographs a[...]
In 1975, photographer Mary Ellen Mark was assigned by "The Pennsylvania Gazette" to produce a story on the making of Milos Forman's film of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While on set, Mark met the women [...]