[pov] Bored Panda - The Nearly Lost 1950s Street Photos of NYC And Chicago by Vivian Maier Were Discovered Only After Her Death
- From: Rondi Lightmark <lightmark1@xxxxxxx>
- To: "pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:03:26 -0700
some new ones I've not seen -- wonderful!
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> Bored Panda - The Nearly Lost 1950s Street Photos of NYC And Chicago by
> Vivian Maier Were Discovered Only After Her Death
> The Nearly Lost 1950s Street Photos of NYC And Chicago by Vivian Maier Were
> Discovered Only After Her Death
> Posted: 07 Apr 2014 08:44 AM PDT
> Vivian Maier, an excellent New York street photographer who took thousand of
> photos in the 1950s and 60s, was left woefully unacknowledged during her
> time. It was only in 2011, two years after her death, that her photos were
> recognized for their raw beauty in a collection published by historian and
> collector John Maloof.
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> Maloof discovered Maier’s photos in a bulk collection of old prints and
> negatives that he bought at an auction. He later purchased the rest of her
> collection but, in a tragic twist of fate, he only discovered the name of the
> photographer shortly before her death.
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> Not every photo’s location is known for certain, but most are from New York
> and Chicago. Her photography is raw, captivating and sensitive – it provides
> us with an up-close and personal look at America in the 1950s and 60s. It is
> especially their real and candid nature that makes them so striking. It truly
> feels as though one has stepped back in time through her photography to a
> sunny day in 1950s New York or Chicago.
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> Maier, who was described by some of the children she had nannied for as “a
> Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of
> person.” And some of this shows in her photos, which tend to focus on the
> working class and the poor.
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> Source: vivianmaier.com (via: mymodernmet)
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> The Nearly Lost 1950s Street Photos of NYC And Chicago by Vivian Maier Were
> Discovered Only After Her Death originally appeared on Bored Panda on April
> 7, 2014.
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