_The Polaroid Party // Mark Lipson

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lipson arrived in Los Angeles in 1978 after finishing at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.

He began his career in LA as a motion picture camera assistant on films and quickly found his niche as a photographer. In the 1980’s Mark developed screenplays, produced television and film (notably Errol Morris’s innovative non-fiction films ‘The Thin Blue Line’ and ‘Fast Cheap and Out of Control’), and contributed to renowned photographic publications, such as “The Art of the SX-70” and “True Stories,” which is based on a feature film of the same name by David Byrne. His first solo photography show was at the Oil Factory in 1992, and he has since been taking and showing bold and graphic photographs. He was selected by Joni Mitchell to document the reunion with the daughter she had given up for adoption.

Commercially, he has shot such iconic campaigns as Apple’s 2002 “Switch” campaign, and Citibank’s “Live Richly” campaign. His most recent solo photography exhibition, at Beyond Baroque, was a collection of one hundred SX-70 Polaroids accompanied with text by noted author and professor Anne Friedberg.