Streetwise Documentary (Mary Ellen Mark)
 

I'm know some of you here are familiar with the photographer, Mary Ellen Mark. I've been a fan of her work for a while now and have always loved her Streetwise collection but haven't really been able to find it around until now. So, I thought I would share in case anyone wanted to see

If you don't know what Streetwise is, it's a documentary on street kids in Seattle in 1983. It's non judgmental, and pretty much just tells the story. It's well worth the watch in my opinion, so get to it.

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (1 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (2 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (3 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (4 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (5 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (6 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (7 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (8 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (9 of 10)

YouTube - 'Streetwise' (10 of 10)

Here is a link to Mary Ellen Marks website, where you can view her Streetwise photographs:

Mary Ellen Mark Streetwise Book

SPOILERS BELOW

I will check this out in a second! I want to watch all back to back...

well so far i love the opening quote.

I'll download the videos and merge them into a movie. It'd be better to watch than a bunch of youtube videos

I'm on the third video now, this is great!

Some of this is gut-wrenching.

Yeah, it's pretty sad.

Seeing Dwayne is probably the worst part.

Fuck.

You must spread more reputation before blah blah blah....

Thank you for sharing this with us. More later when I can really gather my thoughts.

Hahaha, I'm glad you liked it.

I wanna break out my Rat avatar now, but I'm kind of digging the PJ at the moment.

fucking A, i started watching this-- WOW!

most repped.

More people should watch it, lazy fucks.

Oh yes!! Thank you so much, it's quite remarkable!

Rat is so small.

They were so cute together


I wish Mike was in this, but he was in some detention center or something. Rat kept talking about breaking him out.


Dwayne :(

An engaging yet thoroughly tragic documentary - a trip through friendships gained and lost, degradation and hopelessness. A big, big thanks to EMMAh for giving us all the heads-up on this.

fuckit, that was terrible. i mean good, just terrible subject. very fuckign sad. but good.

emmah, if you liked this, you might just like paris is burning. parts of it remind me a lot of this.

it's really good, you should put a SPOILER warning at the top of the page though :p

I'm seriously glad people are enjoying this haha.

What is Paris is Burning about?

it's about BALLS.


ha ha ha. seriously. balls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_is_Burning_(film)

mostly it's grownups but some of the characters reminded me of the kids here though-- particularly venus xtravaganza.