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Wed 5 Jan, 2011 07:53 am
This guy bought a carton of negatives at an estate sale and discovered an amazing photographer: Vivian Maier.
The story:
A slideshow:
A sample to get you hooked:
I breathlessly await the book!
The woman had a marvelous eye for portrait, but more than that, of composition, with light, reflection and shadow. Just marvelous photos. There's a photo shown at about 3:50 of the first video, with a woman walking away from the photographer with two children, and puddles on the sidewalk reflecting sheets of light--a just breathtaking photograph. To think that this women spent 50 or 60 years taking photographs of this quality, and never recognized in her own lifetime.
Thanks, Boom, i'm really glad you posted this.
@Setanta,
I felt like a kid on Christmas morning watching that video.
To think that he has 100,000 negatives and a whole tub of unprocessed film makes me giddy.
The police officer holding the stout woman's arms--there's a short story in a single photograph.
Let's keep bumping this up so that more people see it.
Here's a Vivian Maier page at Blog Spot dot com.
@Setanta,
Thank you! I found the Youtube images hard to see. Those are much easier/ clearer.
Really wonderful stuff.
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
i can think of nothing else to say but OH MY GOD.. !
It revives a world which has been gone for generations, too. Men and women who would never appear on the street without a hat. Girls, young women, who are no different than girls today, but who are laughing and gossiping together in skirts, blouses and sweaters--outfits you'd never see today. It's a world at once familiar and alien.
@shewolfnm,
I saw you over at FB, and immediately thought of this thread--but i was in a hurry to get done what i needed over there, and wanted to hurry back here.
Wikipedia has a bio of her up (no surprise there), and there, i found a link to John Maloof's Vivian Maier web site,
which has 12,000 images!
@boomerang,
boomerang wrote:
I breathlessly await the book!
love this shot, you're eyes are drawn to the sign in the window, but the real story is the pawn shop logo in the lower left corner
I love all the pics of children . . .
Thanks for the links, Set! I've got them bookmarked.
It really is an amazing body of work. I'm glad it fell into hands that recognized what it was.
I'm sorry that she missed becoming The Vivian Maier but I have a feeling she wouldn't have liked all the attention.
Thanks, this discovery is really cool.
Wow, this would have been around the time my dad emigrated from Mexico and settled in Chicago for about twenty years or so. I was there for about the first decade of my life.
She even got a shot of Salvador Dali!
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