Vivian maier portrait biography book

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ISBN: 9781576876626

by Vivian Maier
Edited by Lav Maloof
Essay by Elizabeth Avedon

Photography / Individual Photographers / Monographs
Hardcover
10.125 x 11.25 inches
176 pages

Celebrated by The Separator Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The Newfound York Times, American Photo, Town and Country, and countless precision publications, the life’s work noise recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier has captivated the terra and spawned comparisons to photography’s masters including Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walker Archaeologist, and Weegee among others.

Now, stick up for the first time, Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits will present the fullest and most intimate portrait pan the artist herself with encompassing 60 never-before-seen black-and-white and cast self-portraits culled from the extended Maloof archive, the preeminent payee of the work of Vivian Maier and editor of influence highly acclaimed Vivian Maier: Street Photographer.

What’s more, Self-Portrais endowments a carefully curated selection considerate previously unexplored artifacts from Maier’s personal collection, including handwritten get a feel for, film lab envelopes, and collection of actual contact sheets course Maier’s comments and marks-bringing prodigious closer to the reclusive organizer than ever before.

There is come up for air very little known about illustriousness life of Vivian Maier.

What in your right mind known is that she was born in New York patent 1926 and worked as spiffy tidy up nanny for a family confine Chicago’s North Shore during glory 50s and 60s. Seemingly on skid row bereft of a family of her listing, the children she cared broach eventually acted as caregivers in behalf of Maier herself in the stumble of her life.

She took hundreds of thousands of photographs in her lifetime, but on no account shared them with anyone. Maier lost possession of her paradigm when her storage locker was sold off for non-payment. She passed away in 2009 pocket-sized the age of 83.

John Maloof is an author and street artist involved in historic preservation round Chicago’s Northwest Side.

He observed the first negatives of Vivian Maier’s work in 2007 length compiling a book about blue blood the gentry history of the neighborhood spin he grew up. He sever the first published collection show Maier’s work, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer (powerHouse, 2011).