Film: Vivian Maier....Indeed!

[Jim Galli]

Although Wendy Thurman began a thread about her in Sept of 2009, I thought I would start a new one with the artists name in the title as this lady has captured my interest of late. I'm a relative new-comer to her wonderful work. The work has been recognized today by the New York Times.

Lots of names get thrown around, but I think Helen Levitt comes closest and is almost as unknown as Vivian Maier. Do some searches on Helen if you enjoy Vivian's work.

Leave your bright oversaturated colors behind for a few moments, and soak in some Kodak Tri X in square format. A Rollei and Tri-X was a tour-de-force that is nearly lost now!

Some other links.

The fellow who discovered her nearly lost work!

Chicago Magazine Gallery

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Hi Jim

Yes, Vivian Maier'swork is good. She clearly sruck at it without any recognition - a lesson for the rest of us perhaps?

As for a Rollei and Tri-X, they're probably less expensive than ever, but disappearing all the same.

Mike

 

[Asher Kelman]

Jim,

What a find! There are a lot of unsung heros. I'm so inspired by her discovery. Her work will influence a lot of folk, myself amongst them.

Asher

 

[Ruben Alfu]

A blatant bump to the thread. For anyone interested, now there's a website dedicated to Vivian Maier:

http://www.vivianmaier.com


Ruben

 

[Winston Mitchell]

Ruben, thanks for the link.

I never get tired of looking at her stuff.

I remember that world.

 

[John Wolf]

Thanks for the link to "her" site. Nice to see her work collected like this and presented so well. I'm in the Chicago area and saw her show.

I was so inspired that I dusted off my Rollei TLR not long ago, thinking I'd give film a try. No way. It's all 1s and 0s for me now. But there's no denying the beauty of those large, square negatives.

John

 

[Helene Anderson]

I came across her by chance, looking through this and that on the internet. I found the story of John Maloof and his work after his discovery as interesting almost as the initial work of Vivian Maier.

Great photos, great story.

I was curious, did a search and found this site.