MARK, Mary Ellen - Falkland Road. Prostitutes of Bombay

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Background information

"Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also over-crowded with prostitutes, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset, the customers pass down the street to survey the girls.

Content

The out-of-print photo volume 'Falkland Road', by Mary Ellen MARK, that has long been recognised as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant magnum photographer, contains sixty-five photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. The images by Mary Ellen MARK are beautiful, electric, shocking, and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their color. Together with her captions and introductory text, 'Falkland Road' is an astonishing insight into a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the completeness of the photographer's involvement, by her humanity, and by the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion, and tenderness that still abide there." (© Steidl Verlag, 2005)

Additional information

The extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road by Mary Ellen MARK was first published in 1981 as a paperback edition (Knopf, Thames & Hudson, German by Rogner & Bernhard). In 2005, the hardcover edition offered here, expanded to include additional recordings from the period, with a dust jacket. The book design ot this edition was made by Diana HAAS.

About US Magnum photographer, Mary Ellen MARK (1940-2015)

Photo books by Mary Ellen MARK