Mary Ellen Mark
In 1976 Mary Ellen Mark voluntarily lived in a high security women's mental health institution in the State of Oregon, USA, in order to capture the moods and anxieties of the women who where confined there. The images were subsequently published in Ward 81 (1979), and became the artists record of what she saw as the Human Condition.
Mark's work can be viewed on the following web link.
The images depict emotions, human misery, confusion amongst others human feelings. They are not necessarily nice to look at, but serve to convey what Mark saw as the human condition. Images which record a certain state of mind, or emotion or marker in the human life cycle.
Other artists such as Picasso have depicted human misery or emotion through cubism, and by making the viewer look again an see emotion which lies beneath the surface.
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