Digging Deeper Into Vivian Maier’s Past / New York Times

[DNG]

Very interesting article on Vivian Maier, Part 1 and 2 part

part 1
Digging Deeper Into Vivian Maier’s Past

part 2
A Peek Into Vivian Maier’s Family Album

 

[Pioneer]

This is very interesting. Thanks a lot for posting it.

 

[David Hughes]

Fascinating, thanks.

Regards, David

 

[bmattock]

Yes, very cool. Thank you.

 

[Richard G]

Intriguing. It is not necessarily like me to do so but I see half a reclining nude in that road in the foreground of the haute-alpes.....

 

[BillBingham2]

Interesting, well worth the time.

Please let us know when Part 2 comes out.

Thanks.

B2 (;->

 

[VictorM.]

More details if you follow the link at the bottom of the Times article:

https://vivianmaierbio.wordpress.com/

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I don't know. It is possible the author of the piece leaves a lot out, but, at least from the evidence here, there isn't much new which Ms. Ames has uncovered. We already knew she had a brother named Karl, just not his history, which seems unrelated to Vivian's. The new parts, what little there are, seem conjectural. Having a couple of books of Maier's photographs I was also surprised to see them described as "edgy". Then, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to see a nude on the road in the Alps picture either, so maybe I am just totally off🙂
The movie documentary was fascinating, though.

 

[giganova]

I don't understand how doing some research of her past could equal saving thousands of her images from being lost forever! Without her images, there would be nothing to talk/discuss/research about.

 

[DNG]

Part 2 is added to the 1st post...

Apparently if you don't have a subscription to the online New York Times, you can access 10 articles

 

[Graham Line]

There are no restrictions on accessing https://vivianmaierbio.wordpress.com/ and you can sign up to be notified when updates are made.

Linking Vivian Maier to a significant woman photographer, at an impressionable age, seems to me a piece of the puzzle that had been missing. It's a clue to where she learned her craft, and who might have been an influence.

 

[DNG]

Thanks for the WP link!

 

[MCTuomey]

Whatever adjectives ones uses, and no matter how complete (or not), her work and story are fascinating. An obsessive need to photograph, a broken family, a challenging childhood, a life of serving well-to-do families and children, sustained solitude - not exactly one's high interaction rat with a rolleiflex.

 

[daveleo]

. . . . Linking Vivian Maier to a significant woman photographer, at an impressionable age, seems to me a piece of the puzzle that had been missing. It's a clue to where she learned her craft, and who might have been an influence.

I agree.
There must be an interesting story in their relationship as photographers.

I also don't see her (VM) as a dark, shadowy photographer. That wording is overly dramatic.

 

[DNG]

Whatever adjectives ones uses, and no matter how complete (or not), her work and story are fascinating. An obsessive need to photograph, a broken family, a challenging childhood, a life of serving well-to-do families and children, sustained solitude - not exactly one's high interaction rat with a rolleiflex.

I think her photography was her "escape" and "enjoyment".
I agree with the Rollei statement, she bought after she inherited some money from her parents deaths. She just wanted a quality camera,
possibly her Nanny income was not enough to save up for one.

There was one photo where she had a Robot Star as her camera.