Vivian Maier - Amazing Unknown "Street" Photographer

[kievman]

Hi Gang,
If anyone is interested in checking out a amazing unknown and now dead "street" Photographer then check out the link below.
All the best - Kievman

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80&pid=A1hO97qcWo7ViDL_rWniVH2LakYxNa7J

And for all the folks on this forum who question the artistic and historic value of street photography, this is my answer - K

 

[said]

John Maloofs blog with a large amount of incredible Vivian Maier photos.

 

[chrismoret]

Thanks for the link! I heard about her earlier, but never got the whole story. Here is the link to the blog that 's been set up

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

 

[ampguy]

I enjoyed the video, and John's blog very much. Hope to make it to the exhibit as well.

 

[Phantomas]

I've been following and admiring her work for months. The guy that "rescued" her negatives and started disclosing them to the world gets much respect (and a little envy) from me.
The video is news to me though! Exciting! Will watch when I get home, thanks for posting!

 

[Bill58]

I wonder what the whole collection is gonna be worth?

 

[David Murphy]

Amazing, really amazing story. Makes you wonder how many other fine artists working away in obscurity there might be out there.

 

[Costo Kim]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Vivian+Maier+site:www.rangefinderforum.com 🙂

 

[martin-f5]

thanks a lot for sharing it

 

[zerobuttons]

Hi Gang,
If anyone is interested in checking out a amazing unknown and now dead "street" Photographer then check out the link below.
All the best - Kievman

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80&pid=A1hO97qcWo7ViDL_rWniVH2LakYxNa7J

And for all the folks on this forum who question the artistic and historic value of street photography, this is my answer - K

She has been mentioned many, many times before in these fora. It´s not a competition of course, but I believe the first to chime in was malkmata:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81267
I agree with you that her pictures are good argumentation against those who don´t get why the "ordinary" should be photographed too.

I hesitate calling her work "street photography". That term is in my mind being used by now about too many people who do all kinds of weird stuff and certainly don´t work the way ms. Maier did.

 

[kievman]

If not street photography, what kind of photography would you call it? It certainly looks like street photography to me, and I have been a student of some of the greatest street photographers of the last century - Kievman

 

[Richard G]

The wonderful thing about this astonishing pile of Vivian Maier's work is that it is the opposite of the recent supposed Ansel Adams find. Instead of some indifferent photos purported to be those of a master, we have the works of an unknown, quite obviously those of a master. And instead of some seasoned cynic who used to make a buck out of tap dancers, we have this fresh-faced enthusiast, who twigged that this was something special and has run with it with a passion. Good luck to him. I look forward to an exhibition down here one day, and one day putting a $200 Thames and Hudson photogravure hard bound book of her photos up against my HC-B books.

 

[elshaneo]

One word: Outstanding !!!

 

[Penzes]

Thanks for sharing it. Was quite interesting to see how this treasure is discovered.

 

[GSNfan]

I wonder why more female street shooters don't use a TLR. Its a lot more fashionable to use and carry.