Published by Bulfinch Press in 1991, Mary Ellen Mark, 25 Years brings together a quarter-century of work by one of documentary photography’s leading practitioners. The book is photographed by Mary Ellen Mark, with Marianne Fulton credited for the accompanying authorship and editorial contribution. Its 192 pages present 130 tritone photographs, joining established images from Mark’s practice with a group of largely unpublished photographs made in the circus in India.

That structure gives the volume a broader purpose than a straightforward retrospective. Familiar work is placed alongside a less widely circulated body of photographs, allowing the book to read as both a survey and an argument about Mark’s sustained attention to people living and working at the margins of conventional visibility. The circus material is especially important: it extends the book’s documentary field while retaining Mark’s close engagement with character, performance, vulnerability, and social circumstance.

For a serious collector, the book deserves attention as a substantial early-1990s monograph that gathers different strands of Mark’s practice into one carefully defined publication. Its distinction lies in the balance between canonical images and the Indian circus sequence, and in the way Fulton’s textual role helps frame that body of work without displacing Mark’s photographic authorship. The English-language paperback edition comprises 192 pages and measures approximately 27.9 by 24.1 centimetres, a format suited to sustained looking rather than casual reference. It is a useful volume for understanding how Mark’s documentary commitments were presented across a long career, while also preserving a less familiar part of that record.

The title is Mary Ellen Mark, 25 Years; the recorded ISBN-13 is 9780821218389, with Bulfinch Press identified as publisher.