title:Vivian Maier a photographer found Vivian·Mayer photography collection
Author:John Maloof John Malouf
Publisher Name: Harper design
Publication time: 2014
Language: English
ISBN：9780062305534
Item size: 26.9 x 3 x 32.4 cm
Package: Hardback
Pages: 288
She is a talented artist of "street photography". She often looks at the world through a lulai camera and captures thousands of vivid moments on the streets of Chicago, New York and other cities. She was not a professional photographer. She was just a nanny - Vivian Maier. On the streets of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, she may just be an unknown woman. She never showed the photos to anyone, nor even looked at the whole picture she took - hundreds of undeveloped films were left after her death.
Although Vivian has passed away, the legend of her life has just begun. A young man, John Maloof, made the world know Vivian and spread her precious pictures about the streets of Chicago and other cities in the 1950s and 1970s, which made people marvel. Some people on Weibo called her "very touching".
Vivian is a mystery, just as her subject is also a mystery. With the help of the Internet and open and secret interviews, she collected clues from the obituary, contacted the home affairs department and the family she served, and Ma Lufu successfully pieced together Vivians scattered stories into her legendary life and published them publicly. Some statements seem contradictory, while others are powerful. Even though there are still many mysteries to be solved, it does not prevent us from exploring Vivians life path in the corridor of time, nor does it prevent us from having a glimpse of the style and features of the American metropolis in the middle of the last century through her eyes.
This oneVivian Maier A Photographer Found"Vivian Mayer photography collection" is organized by John Malouf, the discoverer and guardian of Vivian photographic negatives, and Marvin heiferman, the famous photography curator and writer）Written and edited, a total of 250 selectedZhang Weiweis black-and-white and color self portraits of Anne Mayer, as well as some works that have never been published. Shot in the 1950sTo 1970s, this book retains the essence of Vivian Mayers contribution to photography, which is of great collection value.
The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman.
Vivian Maier’s story—the secretive nanny-photographer during her life who becomes a popular sensation shortly after her death—has, to date, been pieced together only from previously seen or known images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. During her lifetime she shot more than 100,000 images, which she kept hidden from the world. In 2007, two years before her death, Chicago historic preservationist John Maloof discovered a trove of negatives, and roll upon roll of undeveloped film in a storage locker he bought at auction. They revealed a surprising and accomplished artist and a stunning body of work, which Maloof championed and brought to worldwide acclaim.
Vivian Maier presents the most comprehensive collection and largest selection of the photographer’s work—created during the 1950s through the 1970s in New York, Chicago, and on her travels around the country—almost exclusively unpublished and including her previously unknown color work. It features images of and excerpts from Maier’s personal artifacts, memorabilia, and audiotapes, made available for the first time. This remarkable volume draws upon recently conducted interviews with people who knew Maier, which shed new light on Maier’s photographic skill and her life.
Review
“Maier, a nanny with a photography obsession and secretive tendencies, has an astonishing story. But it’s her quiet yet piercing images that resonate most.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“...the largest collection of her work to date.” — New Republic
“This dense new book of previously unseen photos (discovered after her death) makes a thoughtful gift for an aspiring photographer, or any fan of Garry Winogrand.” — New Yorkmagazine
The largest and most comprehensive selection of the work of American street photographer Vivian Maier
Photographer Vivian Maiers allure can be explained by the mystery that surrounds both her life and her work. The story of Maier—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a popular sensation shortly after her death—has only been pieced together from a small selection of the images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found is the largest and most in-depth collection of Maiers photographs to date, including her color images.
With lively text by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman, this definitive volume explores and celebrates Maiers work and life from a contemporary and nuanced perspective, analyzing her pictures within the pantheon of American street photography. With more than 235 full-color and black-and-white photographs, most of which have never been published in book form, this collection also includes images of Maier’s personal artifacts and memorabilia that have never been seen before. The text draws upon recently conducted interviews with people who knew Maier, which shed new light on her surprising photographic accomplishments and life.
Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found is a striking, revelatory volume that unlocks the door to the room of a very private artist who made an extraordinary number of images, chose to show them to no one, and, as fate would have it, succeeded brilliantly in fulfilling what remains so many people’s secret or unrealized desire: to live in and see the world creatively.
With more than 235 full-color and black-and-white photographs
John Maloofis an artist and collector. He discovered the first negatives of Vivian Maier’s work in 2007 while compiling a book about the history of the Chicago neighborhood where he resided. He edited the first and second published collections of Maier’s work, Vivian Maier: Street PhotographerandVivian Maier: Self-Portraits. He lives in Skokie, Illinois.
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