“Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. Mary Ellen Mark’s extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark’s images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their colour. Together with Mark’s captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of insight into a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the completeness of the photographer’s involvement, by her humanity, and by the way she captures the variety of individual life and the colour, passion and tenderness that still abide there.” Steidl – – – – – – – – – First edition 1981 hardcover with dust jacket now protected by Mylar cover. Book is in Near Fine condition with slight wear to bottom boards and jacket edge and a small 8mm closed tear to left top of front jacket (price sticker still on rear). Signed and dated by the author – ‘Mary Ellen Mark / London / May 1981’ on first page. This is a very rare combination of a first edition signed hardback in this condition (cited on pages 324-325 of The Hasselblad Center’s “The Open Book”)

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