Obituary Notes: Mary Ellen Mark; Tanith Lee

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Mary Ellen Mark, "one of the premier documentary photographers of her generation," died on Monday, the New York Times reported. She was 75.
During her career, she worked for magazines such as Life and Look, did fashion photography and portraiture, and always did documentary work, focusing on, among others, "prostitutes in Mumbai, homeless teenagers in Seattle and mental patients in a state institution in Oregon." Her images were characterized by empathy and humanity.

She published a range of books. Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, which will be published in the fall by Aperture, returns to the main character in the book Streetwise, one of several homeless Seattle youths she photographed in the early 1980s. Her collections are Mary Ellen Mark: Portraits, Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey and Exposure.

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Tanith Lee, the British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer who also wrote poetry and children's books, died on Sunday, the Bookseller reported. She was 67.
Lee wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories and sometimes used the pen name Esther Garber. In 1980, she was the first woman to win the August Derleth Award for best novel (for Death's Master) at the British Fantasy Awards. 
She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 2013 and the Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award this year.

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Author Tanith Lee, 67, Dies Peacefully In Her Sleep

BooksBookTuesday 26 May 2015

Lee was the author of over 90 books and 300 short stories, as well as four BBC Radio plays, and two highly-regarded episodes of the BBC's SF series Blake's 7 (Sand and Sarcophagus). 
She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton in 2013 and the Horror Writers Lifetime Achievement Award this year, which joined her British Fantasy Award from 1980 for Death's Master, and her World Fantasy Award for her short story "The Gorgon".


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