Thursday, December 19, 2013
Vivian Maier and the Hidden History of Women's Photography
Vivian Maier took about
150,000 pictures during her lifetime, but never showed a single one to
another living soul. When she died in April 2009, Vivian was remembered
as a beloved nanny by the then-grown children who rescued her from
homelessness and took care of her in her later years. Maier’s collection
of negatives (most of which were never printed) was already being
scattered to the winds after she failed to pay rent on her storage unit
two years earlier. Thanks to filmmaker and street photographer John Maloof,
who bought some of the negatives while researching another project,
Vivian Maier’s photographs have been seen for the first time by the
public and recognized as some of the finest street images taken by an American photographer, male or female, of the 20th century. In Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits,
Maloof continues the rediscovery of Maier’s work, but this time
focusing on her unique, enigmatic self-portraits. Vivian Maier’s story
is more than just the story of a single, almost-lost photographer, but
also the story of the hidden history of women’sphotography and women’s art itself. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Vivian Maier and the Hidden History of Women's Photography."
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