Winner of the second annual Cornell Capa award for distinguished photography in 2001, Mary Ellen Mark takes an "eloquent look at lives on the edge," according to Grace Glueck in the New York Times. In the photojournalism and photo essays she has produced for more than three decades, Mark has chronicled prostitutes and circus performers in India, street kids in the United States, and inmates of prisons and mental wards. Over the course of her career, she has been "preoccupied with depicting society's voiceless and disregarded," noted Andrea Barnet in the New York Times. Barnet called Mark's subjects "the tough, unkempt fringes of the culture, the outcasts as well as the unsightly." Paul Richard, writing in the Washington Post, called Mark an "artist with a special knack," adding that the photojournalist "makes the gritty glossy. Her images in black-and-white--of leprosy and fascism and mental retardation--ought to scare and bite...