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Ricordando Ruth Orkin nel centenario della nascita. Conversazione con Mary Engel, direttrice dell’Orkin / Engel Film and Photo Archive

Ricordando Ruth Orkin nel centenario della nascita. Conversazione con Mary Engel, direttrice dell’Orkin / Engel Film and Photo Archive

Mary Engel, pluripremiata regista, è figlia dei grandi fotografi Ruth Orkin e Morris Engel e direttrice e archivista dell’Orkin / Engel Film and Photo Archive. Il suo primo documentario Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life è stato presentato in anteprima al Sundance Film Festival nel 1996 ed è stato selezionato dall'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences come uno dei "documentari eccezionali del 1996". È co-produttrice del remake del film Piccolo fuggitivo diretto dai suoi genitori. Ha pubblicato tre cataloghi fotografici: Ruth Orkin A Retrospective (1995), Morris Engel Early Work (1999) e Ruth Orkin Above and Beyond (1999). Recentemente ha fondato l’American Photography Archive Group (APAG) che comprende oltre 30 archivi fotografici.

Remembering Ruth Orkin’s Centenary of the Birth. Conversation with Mary Engel, director of Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive

Remembering Ruth Orkin’s Centenary of the Birth. Conversation with Mary Engel, director of Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive

Mary Engel, an award winning filmmaker, is the daughter of the great photographers Ruth Orkin and Morris Engel and the director and archivist of the Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive. Her first film Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the “Outstanding Documentaries of 1996.” She is a co-producer on the remake of the feature film Little Fugitive, directed by her parents (1953). She has published three catalogs of photography: Ruth Orkin A Retrospective (1995), Morris Engel Early Work (1999) and Ruth Orkin Above and Beyond (1999). She also recently founded the American Photography Archive Group (APAG) which is comprised of over 30 photography archives that are handled by a family member.

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