A Look at the Photography of Vivan Maier
Digital camera users will know that taking photography has become easier because of technologies. Now it is easier to capture images because of your digital camera. However, imagine if you were in a time where digital cameras were yet to be mainstream and they film cameras were the only way for a lensman to capture an image.
Vivian Maier lived in such a time. She was born in 1926 and died just three years ago, no one knew of her or her work up to now. She is now known and revered as an amateur street photographer who grew up in France but lived in New York. Instead of being a photographer she worked as a nanny in Chicago. Her work spans 100,000 (yes, 100,000) photographs. Her subjects were usually cityscapes nd the streets of Chicago.
The discoveries of her works were pretty interesting. It was a local New York Historiam, John Maloof who discovered her in 2007. Just when she passed away it was only then that Maier's works were received with such critical acclaim.
Her photography were exhibited in countries such as US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011.
No one really knows much about Vivian Maier works and truths about it are still being discovered. What is known is that US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011.
Maier's photographic legacy, in the form of some 100,000 negatives – much still undeveloped – was discovered by 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof, also president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society in Chicago. While working on a book about the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park,[8] Maloof bought 30,000 prints and negatives from an auction house that had acquired the photographs from a storage locker that had been sold off when Maier was no longer able to pay her fees.
Vivian Maier lived in such a time. She was born in 1926 and died just three years ago, no one knew of her or her work up to now. She is now known and revered as an amateur street photographer who grew up in France but lived in New York. Instead of being a photographer she worked as a nanny in Chicago. Her work spans 100,000 (yes, 100,000) photographs. Her subjects were usually cityscapes nd the streets of Chicago.
The discoveries of her works were pretty interesting. It was a local New York Historiam, John Maloof who discovered her in 2007. Just when she passed away it was only then that Maier's works were received with such critical acclaim.
Her photography were exhibited in countries such as US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011.
No one really knows much about Vivian Maier works and truths about it are still being discovered. What is known is that US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011.
Maier's photographic legacy, in the form of some 100,000 negatives – much still undeveloped – was discovered by 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof, also president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society in Chicago. While working on a book about the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park,[8] Maloof bought 30,000 prints and negatives from an auction house that had acquired the photographs from a storage locker that had been sold off when Maier was no longer able to pay her fees.
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