Chicago Nanny turns out to have been an extraordinary street photographer as well

<p>http://www.vivianmaier.blogspot.com/</p>

<p>Very cool stuff, make sure you watch the TV news story video on the page.</p>

There are some very interesting compositions & framing, including subjects. Thanks Ellis. A link to an image resulting in the same file as seen previously on the page, rather than producing a larger version, sapped the joy.

<p>This is rather wonderful.</p>

<p>Very nice. The shot of the guy sitting on a park bench with a balloon in front of his face is priceless.</p>

<p>Great stuff - Her name is, for the record and for Google™, </p>

<h1 >Vivian Maier</h1>

<p>I don't know how good she was as a Nanny, but as photographer she is great. Thanks Ellis. If you fall on more of her photos, don't forget to inform us.</p>

<p>She was very very good. Thanx for the link, enjoyed her images, would like to see more.</p>

<p>She's been mentioned here before. The original finder of the pictures seems to be well over his head with them, and in realizing what he has in some ways overestimating the value of the collection. That collection deserves to be in a major Chicago museum, the material professionally catalogued, curated and archivally stored.</p>

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<p>Very nice. The shot of the guy sitting on a park bench with a balloon in front of his face is priceless.</p>

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<p>You beat me to it Craig. How many times have I passed or tossed a photo like that thinking, "That doesn't work."? The things you learn just by looking.</p>

<p>Thanks, Ellis. Great stuff. I'd place her in the same league as Winogrand and Friedlander.</p>

<p>Thanks for posting, Ellis. I'd seen her work before too, I think from a post here at P'net, but no complaints on seeing it twice. I think there are many talented photogs who aren't trying to be discovered in their lifetimes, so they aren't. They die off, and a tiny percentage of these people are discovered posthumously by somebody ending up with their images.</p>

<p>Examples: the photo studio portraits of LaPorte IN, the anonymous city photographer in NYC, Michael Farmer down in the South.... I bet there are many, many, many more.</p>

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<p>That collection deserves to be in a major Chicago museum, the material professionally catalogued, curated and archivally stored.</p>

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<p>Why?<em><br /></em></p>

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<p>Why?</p>

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<p><em>WHY</em>? what's <em>your</em> take on the situation, then?</p>

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<p><em>Why?</em></p>

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<li>Because it is truly great photography<em>, a</em>s good as any of the "street photography" school done since Atget.</li>

<li>The best of her work has an intelligence, and a very personal wit; a sense of beauty, clarity of vision, balance, and finally a photogrpahic poetry to it.</li>

<li>From what little I've seen so far Miss Maier did not flinch at jesting at and creating comedy at the expense of some people's vanity and also at expressing a tenderness that refuses to descend into mawkishness in her careful observations of people's straitened circumstances. </li>

<li>It is a unique body of work.</li>

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<p>That's why.</p>

<p>That's some good find.</p>

<p>http://www.heathermorton.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/a36.jpg</p>

<p>http://www.killeryellow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/vivianmaier2.jpg</p>

<p>http://www.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=vivian%20maier&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1783&bih=1106</p>

<p>http://chicagoist.com/2009/10/15/walking_around_our_city_its.php?gallery0Pic=16#gallery</p>

<p>I like <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PCZlrtuNZgA/S7etIqQc6aI/AAAAAAAAC8g/Ha2mAZQAZ8M/s1600/CHI-967.jpg">this one</a> too.</p>

<p>Ellis, you don't have to convince <strong><em>me</em></strong>, My comment was astonishment that <strong>Clive F.</strong> had to ask.</p>

<p>And Arbus, and, and… Chicago will be great for excellent photo shows this Spring. I hope some really knowledgeable people are curating her work. <br>

And all that unexposed film! What would you do with it? I would auction each undeveloped roll. That alone would raise millions. Or even better, they should be exhibited up the street at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I'd curate that as "Vivian Maier, An Un-processed Life."<br>

AZ</p>

 

<p>I never get tired of looking at those. I was completely blown away the first time I saw her work, she had such an eye for detail and such a personal way of looking at her subjects. While most 'street' photography conveys motion, is 'busy', never stops... she stopped thousands of moments in time, to show us (or perhaps just herself?) the inadvertently beautiful. She must have had an invisible cloak.</p>

<p>Count me as blown-away, too! I find it interesting (and heartening) that apparently her decades-old B&W film is being successfully developed... Any thoughts on that? Also, her choice of camera... In the tv clip, it sounds as if she may have strongly favored the Rolleiflex, and the pictures seem to look <em>technically</em> great, too, in terms of sharpness, resolution, etc. Any thoughts on her choice of camera? I'm not one to fixate on equipment, but am thinking of moving into medium format when finances allow, and know next to nothing about Rollei. Would this be your choice, too?</p>

<p>Her photos speak eloquently beyond any comment I could make. A reflex camera at waist level gave her an advantage in catching her subjects unaware, in addition to the mastered art of being unobtrusive.</p>

<p>Count me as blown-away too!<br>

What was fun for me looking over her work, I did not care what camera, what make of the camera and the lens used to shoot the photographs. All I saw was great photographs.<br>

Bill</p>

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<p>I'm really looking forward to the show at the Chicago Cultural Center. </p>