Mark Goodman, a 1970 graduate of Boston University in Anthropology, studied with Minor White during a 1970 photography workshop. A year later, he attended Apeiron Workshops in Photography and began a twenty-year project documenting (photographs and audio tapes) a generation of children growing up in the nearby village of Millerton, New York. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977); his photographs were featured in Aperture 19:4 (1975); exhibited in a one-person show at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York (1980-1981) ; and A Kind of History: Millerton, New York 1971-1991 was selected by Vince Aletti in the Village Voice as one of the Top Ten Best Photography Books of 2000. Between 1980 and 2013, he was a professor of photography at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2005, he has published limited pigment print and Blurb books, portfolios of photographs, and personal essays.