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Remembering Mary Ellen Mark's Work With 'Streetwise' Seattle Youth

caption: In this June 20, 2013, file photo provided by Leica, photographer Mary Ellen Mark attends the Leica Los Angeles Grand Opening in Los Angeles.
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In this June 20, 2013, file photo provided by Leica, photographer Mary Ellen Mark attends the Leica Los Angeles Grand Opening in Los Angeles.
Leica/Todd Williamson, via AP File

Marcie Sillman speaks with Seattle photographer Alice Wheeler about the photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who died on Monday at age 75. Some of Mark's best-known work documents the lives of 1980s-era Seattle street youth in a photography series for LIFE magazine and later in a documentary film called "Streetwise."

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