Mark Parascandola is a documentary fine-art photographer based in Washington DC and Almería, Spain. He is especially interested in how photographs and movies can shape our perceptions of history and truth or create ambiguity between reality and make-believe.
His new photobook Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, which documents the mainland China film industry, was published November 2019 by Daylight Books.
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60 Years Ago: Dr. Zhivago in Madrid
Halfway through filming Lawrence of Arabia in Jordan, producer Sam Spiegel ordered David Lean to move the production to Spain. Costs were mounting as the crew battled sandstorms and other challenges of filming in the remote desert. Spain, which had...
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Miami Art Week 2025
Treading water a few hundred feet offshore from Miami Beach seems an unusual way to view an art installation. On Sunday morning, at the tail end of Miami Art Week, I ventured out with the Dolphins and Rainbows open water...
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The Library of Us
Day and night throughout Miami Art Week, Es Devlin’s installation The Library of Us drew crowds to the beach behind the Faena hotel. An enormous, metal tower of bookshelves, set in the middle of a reflective pool, rotates like a...
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the full uncut version of Quentin Tarantino’s epic, finally gets its theatrical release this week, more than two decades after the original release of Volume 1. Executive producer Harvey Weinstein had deemed the film...
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The Films that Franco Saw
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco, the Generalísimo who ruled Spain as a dictator for four decades. The moment has triggered a flood of commentary regarding his legacy and profound impact on 20th-century Spain,...
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The Demolition of Carabanchel
“Carabanchel está grabado a fuego en la piel moral de todos los españoles.” Juan Antonio Ramírez, Carabanchel: el templo de la memoria Under cover of darkness, one night in late October 2008, an excavator began tearing at the walls of...
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