The Continuous Conversation: Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Bell, and Tiny
On her first night in Seattle on assignment for Life magazine, the photographer Mary Ellen Mark was in the parking lot of a club called the Monastery when a taxicab pulled up. Out stepped Erin "Tiny" Blackwell, a 13-year-old girl with a devastating stare. Mark had already met several other street kids, many of whom would be included in the photo essay "Streets of the Lost," created in collaboration with the journalis…