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

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

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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.
 
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.
 
Graham Line said:
. . . . 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.
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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.
 
MCTuomey said:
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.
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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.
 
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