FALKLAND ROAD PROSTITUTES OF BOMBAY - Mary Ellen Mark
American photographer Mary Ellen Mark's (1940 - ) extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this important Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs taken over a period of six weeks, depicting the daily lives of women (and men) on the street. Mary Ellen Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and the visceral brilliance of their color.
With the photographer's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of understanding of a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the photographer's total involvement, her humanity, and the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still remain in it. Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. Like any lower-class street in Bombay, it is densely populated with vendors, merchants and stores, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11 to 65. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, teeming with prostitutes hanging out of windows, in ground-floor observation cages and on steps. From sunrise to sunset, customers pass through the street to probe the girls.
Published by Steidl in 2005
32.5 x 28.5 cm, 123 pages, good condition
ISBN 9782850184246
American photographer Mary Ellen Mark's (1940 - ) extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this important Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs taken over a period of six weeks, depicting the daily lives of women (and men) on the street. Mary Ellen Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and the visceral brilliance of their color.
With the photographer's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of understanding of a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the photographer's total involvement, her humanity, and the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still remain in it. Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. Like any lower-class street in Bombay, it is densely populated with vendors, merchants and stores, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11 to 65. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, teeming with prostitutes hanging out of windows, in ground-floor observation cages and on steps. From sunrise to sunset, customers pass through the street to probe the girls.
Published by Steidl in 2005
32.5 x 28.5 cm, 123 pages, good condition
ISBN 9782850184246
American photographer Mary Ellen Mark's (1940 - ) extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this important Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs taken over a period of six weeks, depicting the daily lives of women (and men) on the street. Mary Ellen Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and the visceral brilliance of their color.
With the photographer's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of understanding of a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the photographer's total involvement, her humanity, and the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still remain in it. Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. Like any lower-class street in Bombay, it is densely populated with vendors, merchants and stores, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11 to 65. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, teeming with prostitutes hanging out of windows, in ground-floor observation cages and on steps. From sunrise to sunset, customers pass through the street to probe the girls.
Published by Steidl in 2005
32.5 x 28.5 cm, 123 pages, good condition
ISBN 9782850184246
