It's an irony that many professional street-photographers aren't as competent as a nanny with a relatively hard-to-use twin-lens reflex camera. The fact that many of her photos were properly exposed despite less-than-ideal lighting conditions is nothing short of amazing.
and what is even more amazing is she never developed her film and yet she had properly exposed images, how could she ever even know the images were coming out ok when she never developed the film, Right ?
@@MBJanus who knows for sure but my point was she didn't seem to develop much of her film so how could she gauge her exposures when she couldn't really see what she was getting etc. nothing more nothing less to my original comment ! Peace !
@@jixxxxer17 I'm sorry, I didnt want to be rude, my english is poor (I'm French). In fact, I read meanwhile that a lot of films weren't developped, and that art photos of Maier are sold about 2000-6000$. As these photos are made with an unusual method (like Cibachrome, removing Ag on them), it is very possible too that the oldest films were developped in several steps. I apologize. Now, I am able to read a negative and Vivian Maier too I presume. Cordially yours.
I don't believe she would not have loved to see what's happening now. She was an artist. And only until 1976 my God where is the rest she died in 2009.. She most certainly took photos after 1976.
I too lived like Vivian .... For most of my life, I was a live in Caregiver. People often look down on you as "Hired Help." People seem to be astonished that you may have talents that go beyond wiping noses, doing laundry, cooking meals,...etc. This is something that always bothered me, in the way people treated me. I always thought to myself, "today, I will give of myself to you,... tomorrow, I will do my art." 😔I only regret that I didn't steal my time away, and do my thing...." I am glad I was able to help people over all those years,... but in all the time I gave,... and the people who hugged me and said, "you're now family"... not once did I get a Christmas card, birthday card, note, a call of "How are you doing?" after the job was done.... Funny thing, I'm still glad I was able to "help people," get to know them, share with them what they were WILLING to share with me....
it's their problem, not yours. i am an assist professor and many of my students treat me like hired help too. some even got my name wrong when they asked me to write their reference letters for postgrad applications.
Hi Penny… I find it quite profound when you write that despite all that time you gave to other people who considered you family… you never received a Christmas card or any note of that type. Very moving… that you for sharing that❤❤
Was wondering would there b an exhibition of Vivienne's.Photos would possibly b coming to Manchester uk would love to see them for real Thanks Barry uk
the description of this extraordinary person as "a domestic" is disturbing The obvious jealous tone is horrible This woman was unique in the world and entitled to choose her life
Her images were very powerful. I am a street photographer /photojournalist and I shoot anywhere from a 100 to 200 in a few hours and never view it until later when editing. It takes to much time to shoot and view and I shoot 2 - 3 shots and quickly move on. Flickr is crap it got bought out and they want to delete 3000 plus of my images unless I upgrade. Images for over 10 to 20 years ago. It used to be free now it limited to a 1000 unless you pay. I lost my my originals. What can I do it feels like they are crooks and ruined my life. Nothing but nasty sh# I dropped my hard drive and a computer tech told my images are lost stuff from 1982 when I first started. Can it be safed? My 500g hard drive
..so so many contradictions in the commentary….one example: she was//she wasn't interested in taking photos of how distant events intersected her life. She saw "beauty" in the subjects//objects she photographed..or..she saw "meaning//relevance" in what she encountered and photographed?
You've got to be joking. Did you even watch this video? There was no jealous tone, and yet you comment about it twice. They were very, very respectful. These people really honored her work.
I think it's unfortunate that so called academics etc. (this is not just with reference to this video) Can get hold of someone's PRIVATE property (without express permission ie within a Will) after they die and profit.. In one way or another.
+Spehmaster G. I think that when he says that Vivian would not have allowed it he has spoken only a kernel of the truth. Vivian, from everything I have seen, was an intensely private person and would not have condoned an intrusion into that privacy. However, she also made it known that she wanted to make more prints of her work. As is mentioned here, she just could not afford it. Vivian spent thousands on film and on processing her negatives, she KNEW she had some great shots, she said so. In her lifetime she probably would have had to have been approached by ONLY the right person to even discuss her photography BUT she took those photos for more than simply sentimental purposes. I truly believe that she would be delighted by the sudden fame her work has gotten. Mind you from a place of untouchability! Vivian did not pay her storage fees, a storage company has a right to recoup lost rent by auctioning off units with back rent... a less astute buyer of her units might have thrown her negatives into a dumpster and NO ONE would have known of the fantastic photographer Vivian Maier. These people are her champions and I applaud their efforts. If some people are making money on what would had been shunted aside by every museum because the artist who took the pictures is dead and again NO ONE would have known of Vivian, then I for one love that her brilliance has made it to common knowledge through the efforts of these few people. The tragedy is not that some people are making money from this work, the tragedy is that we all could have grown up with these images! The greater tragedy would have been if the world never got to see them.
Dissing Cartier Bresson? That’s foolish. She stands alone, all right. Never processed any film - never made a print. 100,000 images of which we’ve seen a tiny slice. Brought to life by competent professionals. Where is the shit pile? I’ve never been impressed with all the adulation. A photographer does the whole process, something she did not.
