Photography & Imaging
 | Mark Bussell |
Courses
Fall 2009: Documentary Strategies
Biography
Mark Bussell is the former Picture Editor of The New York Times and of The New York Times Magazine. As Special Projects Editor for The Times, he worked with the Museum of Modern Art to produce the book and exhibit Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from The New York Times and developed strategies to turn articles from the daily newspaper into the newspaper’s first video and web presentations. On and after Sept. 11, 2001, Mark shot and produced breaking news videos and features pieces about the attack for nytimes.com.
Mark is currently working for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts documenting their multi-year redevelopment project for the center’s publications, web site and archive. These images have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker and other media.
He is also working with Providence Pictures on documentaries that will appear on NOVA/PBS in 2010, “The Disappearing Sphinx” and “Cathedrals Decoded.”
Mark conceived and edited the award-winning book “Without Sanctuary,” a collection of photographs dealing with lynching in America and helped organize the accompanying exhibit at The New-York Historical Society, as well as the project’s web site, withoutsanctuary.org. The exhibit continues to travel around the United States and the world. Mark has helped edit and write for numerous other books, including “Capturing the Moment: The Sports Photography of Barton Silverman,” “Cityscapes,” by Claudio Edinger, and “Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races From the Photo Archives of The New York Times.”
Mark was one of two American artists invited to the 2003 Pingyao International Photography festival in China, where his video, “Accidental Chronicle,” was a featured presentation. The video was also selected by the Millennium Art Museum of China for the first Beijing International Art Biennial.
