Finding Vivian Maier - new documentary on recently discovered genius photographer Vivian Maier

looks great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2nBhQ67Zc

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

her stuff is kinda unbelievably good. and to think it was just sitting in a box undeveloped for decades...

this is cool

nice photos!

i watched this, good doc;

is interesting how she tracks from a young-er eccentric to an older likely? damaged & v isolated person; is kinda crazy that she was still living as recently as ~5 yrs ago

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/04/if-you-love-street-photography-new-documentary-must-see/8818/

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i find this documentary getting so much play a lil strange just because - as a consequence of the major players being those involved in maier's discovery, rather than her work - it's populated mainly by a) storage auction hounds & b) now-grown, infant-charges of maier's dayjob role as a nanny. all speculating.

but her photographs are unreal so nbd

i liked the leiter doc much more. really nice.

though none of this shit needs drizzling with cello music

Who else are they going to be interview other than the dude who found the photos and the now-grown infant charges (and a small number of their parents still living)? It's not like she appears to have interacted much with anyone else. They do interview a couple of professionals in field (and Tim Roth blurbs) who mostly say what patently obvious from first photo (this stuff is good!) It is interesting to me that the two charges who might have known her best (the two who put her up in the apartment in her last years) are not interviewed at all.

Work as displayed in film is amazing though. Could easily watch entire film of that cello music or no.

Going to see this either today or tomorrow. Playing in two different theatres here.

It is interesting to me that the two charges who might have known her best (the two who put her up in the apartment in her last years)

^yea i wondered abt this also

Quite a story. The photographs look great (I'm far from an expert), the only thing giving me pause the bit where they show how much she was influenced by other photographers--maybe a critic would view her as a lesser synthesis of her influences? I'm glad there was much less of Maloof after the first 15 minutes; nothing wrong with him, I just wondered if the film was going to end up being about him as much as her. I was surprised and not surprised by the dark turn near the end. Without consciously formulating the thought, I think I was waiting for something like that. His name slips my mind, but the photographer who's interviewed numerous times (not Mary Ellen Mark, the other guy) advocates for the quality of her work very well.

To be fair to Maier I don't know that point of showing the other photographers was to indicate their influence or to make it seem as though her voice was not original. Not even sure that all of those artists would necessarily have been known to her. Just more that there are certain similarities in style and subject matter.

Maier was definitely working within a tradition

Or four or five traditions.

Haven't watched the doc but back when this was first happening I remember one of the anecdotal details being that among the things in her boxes of boxes of belongings she'd move with, there was definitely a collection of photo books, also I think she went to the library pretty frequently?

I don't think it's a detraction to point out she was working within a genre of photography, or by showing her work side by side with the greats from that time, if anything it's amazing how her pictures can hold up when compared to those by the acclaimed photographers of that time

there was a m/l parallel doc on her done by the bbc, its on amazon prime and also good imo, prob better than maloofs tbh; its a little more procedural of exactly how her storage unit was split up after she stopped paying on it; also talks abt her high 'hit rate' just one shot at a time taken most of the time apparently o_o