Marginal Images

How can photography capture the “outside,” the “alongside”? Several exhibitions at this year’s Rencontres d’Arles explore the concept of the margins: the fringes of society, the perspective chosen by the artist, and the boundaries of the image itself. Here, we focus on four approaches that are as disconcerting as they are captivating.

Traveling showmen, the mentally ill, drug addicts, prostitutes: photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) devoted most of her career to capturing lives on the margins of society. With Encounters (Espace Van Gogh), the 55th edition of Les Rencontres d’...

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