zaterdag 1 januari 2011

Vivian Maier & Maxwell Street Chicago Street Photography



Vivian Maier, Photographer: More Than Just A Good Story (A Lot More)




VIVIAN MAIER
1926-2009
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1970s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes between 30-40,000 mostly medium format negatives. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.






This Maxwell Street collage includes various scenes of the well-known Chicago street market from Vivian's eyes and a song recovered from a spool of audio tape that was included with some of Vivian's photographs.









2 opmerkingen:

  1. More great stuff to come from the people who brought her stuff to the light of day and internet ... Thanks Ron, John, and Jeff .... maybe I will post eventually out of my collection ... Randy

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  2. Thanks to Ron, John, and jeff ( In no particular order) for bringing Vivians work to the light of day and Internet .... Maybe I will eventually post some of my collection of her stuff ... Randy

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