Mary Ellen Mark: Indian Circus

by Mary Ellen Mark

Playful yet haunting, Mark's photographs of Indian circus performers capture a community on the verge of obsolescence

In 1969, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark traveled to India for the first time, where she photographed a circus and was "immediately struck by the beauty and innocence of the show." Two decades later, she returned to India for a six-month period to embark on a project of documenting 18 circuses across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3969993148
• ISBN13: 9783969993149
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 160 Pages