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Survival Kit

Sunday, August 18, 2002
  • Mary Ellen Mark

    Mary Ellen Mark

    Mary Ellen Mark has travelled all over the world to capture her award-winning photographic images. She has chronicled the lives of prostitutes in Bombay, addicts in Britain, the dying in Calcutta, circus performers in Mexico, Vietnam, and India, and homeless children in this country, in sensitive (yet gritty) detail. But today we've asked her to take a trip of a different sort, an imaginary trip to an unpopulated island or isolated cabin in the woods, and tell us what eight items she would put in her cultural Survival Kit.

Survival Kit Items

1. movie, War and Peace, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
2.Orson Welles' Citizen Kane
3. Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief
5. photography book of Andre Kertesz
6. photography book of Henri Cartier-Bresson
7. photography book of Brassai
8. photography book of Helen Levitt (also, Tom Waits' "The Heart of Saturday Night")