Book Highlight- Vivian Maier The Color Work

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The story of Vivian Meyer is certainly a fascinating one. Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life.But whatever about her background and discovery it’s her street photography that fascinates most. The first definitive monograph of color photographs -Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest and most highly curated published collection of Maier’s full-color photographs to date. It’s due for publication in November 2018
With a foreword by world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck, this definitive volume sheds light on the nature of Maier’s color images, examining them within the context of her black-and-white work as well as the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had kinship, like Eugene Atget and Lee Friedlander. With more than 150 color photographs, most of which have never been published in book form, this collection of images deepens our understanding of Maier, as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present her interpretation of the world around her.
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Finding Vivian Maier

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Showing May 20th 2015
It may would be fair to say that the recent resurgence in the interest and practice of street photography is in no small part due to the discovery in 2007 of a large quantity of unprocessed film left behind by the recently deceased Vivian Maier, a lady who worked as a nanny for most of her adult life. If you are not familiar with the story and have any interest in photography, then this film is a ‘must see’.
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