Mary Ellen Mark
January 2022
Huxley-Parlour Gallery
Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present a solo exhibition of 26 works by American photographer
Mary Ellen Mark. It will be the first UK presentation of Mark’s work since her inclusion in a 2008
exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, in London.
Mary Ellen Mark is widely known for her ability to photograph those on the margins of society with
compassion and intimacy. Taking portraiture as its focus, Huxley-Parlour’s exhibition will examine
the relationship between the photographer and her subjects. More broadly, the exhibition seeks
to display Mark’s significant contribution to the history of American documentary photography.
The title of the exhibition comes from a Maya Angelou poem, ‘Human Family’, which is reproduced
in Mary Ellen Mark’s 1999 photobook American Odyssey. The poem asks the reader to recognise
our similarities alongside our differences, as “We are more alike, my friends/ than we are unalike”.
In situ
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Queen and Boyfriend in Bed, Broadway Hotel, New York City, 1968. Mary Ellen Mark
Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present a solo exhibition of 26 works by American photographer Mary Ellen Mark. It will be the first UK presentation of Mark’s work since her inclusion in a 2008 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, in London.
Mary Ellen Mark is widely known for her ability to photograph those on the margins of society with compassion and intimacy. Taking portraiture as its focus, Huxley-Parlour’s exhibition will examine the relationship between the photographer and her subjects. More broadly, the exhibition seeks to display Mark’s significant contribution to the history of American documentary photography.
The title of the exhibition comes from a Maya Angelou poem, ‘Human Family’, which is reproduced in Mary Ellen Mark’s 1999 photobook American Odyssey. The poem asks the reader to recognise our similarities alongside our differences, as “We are more alike, my friends/ than we are unalike”.
In situ
Queen and Boyfriend in Bed, Broadway Hotel, New York City, 1968. Mary Ellen Mark