Mark Cohen

Born in 1943, in Wilkes-Barre, USA. Lives and works in Philadelphia.

Commercial photographer since 1958, the street is Mark Cohen's favorite playground. He photographs American society through its youth, a youth full of life, laughing, overflowing with energy or on the contrary in perdition, braving the prohibitions or putting themselves in danger. A documentary photography but with a graphic aesthetic. He composes through a certain symmetry, a dynamic, revealing himself in wide shots or on the contrary in close-ups. Mark Cohen's career is interesting and sees a series of successes. In 1969 he participated in the Vision and Expression exhibition at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester. But it was in 1971 that his career took an important turn when he obtained a Guggenheim grant to document his hometown of Wilkes-Barre. The series, which he named Grim Street, was later exhibited at the MOMA in 1973. The success of his work led to its inclusion in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago.

He is represented by the Danziger Gallery, New York.