Mark power photographer biography samples
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Mark Power is a British photographer who is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. Power has worked with the editorial and charity markets for almost a decade, before he began teaching in the early 1990s. Much of his work has been in famous galleries across the world such as The Arts Council of England, the British Council, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum and Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Art.
In addition, Mark Power has also published eight books. For example: The Shipping Forecast (1996), Superstructure (2000), The Treasury Project (2002), 26 Different Endings (2007), The Sound of Two Songs (2010), Mass (2013), Die Mauer istWeg! (2014) and Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (2016).
References:
Magnum Photos. (2020). Mark Power, Photographer Profile, Magnum Photos. [online] <https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/mark-power> [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019].
Markpower.co.uk. (2019). Biography. [online] <https://www.markpower.co.uk/Biography> [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019].
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Poetry reading. Zurich, Switzerland. 1966. © Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
“Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They’re quick things and there’s a whole world in them.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
The upcoming Square Print Sale: Fable marks the first-ever collaboration with a literary partner in the sale’s 10-year history and represents its latest evolution. Pairing image and text is far from a new phenomenon for Magnum though. Since the beginning, photographers have collaborated with writers to produce memorable and impactful news stories, various photo books, projects that start in unusual ways, histories that might not be told otherwise, and work that subverts the traditional power dynamics of photography.
In the Beginning, There Was (Also) the Word
The history of Magnum photographers partnering with writers goes back to the cooperative’s establishment in 1947. Cofounder Robert Capa and author John Steinbeck captured Stalin’s USSR together for 40 days, offering a demythologizing account of everyday life there during the start of the Cold War. Through a combination of word and image, the resulting book, A Russian Journal, detailed their journey through then-Soviet Moscow, Kiev, Stalingrad and
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