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Mark Cohen

(b.1943)

“I’m in my backyard making these. The whole country is my studio.”

Mark Cohen is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography.

Cohen's major books of photography are Grim Street (2005), True Color (2007), and Mexico (2016). His work was first exhibited in a group exhibition at George Eastman House in 1969 and he had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1973. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1971 and 1976 and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1975.