Mark Cohen (born August 24, 1943) is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography.
[1][2] Cohen's major books of photography are Grim Street (2005), True Color (2007), and Mexico (2016).
He attended Penn State University and Wilkes College between 1961 and 1965, and opened a commercial photo studio in 1966.
[6] The majority of the photography for which Cohen is known is shot in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area (also known as the Wyoming Valley), a historic industrialized region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
Characteristically Cohen photographs people close-up, using a wide-angle lens and a flash, mostly in black and white, frequently cropping their heads from the frame, concentrating on small details.