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Vivian Maier Shooting in Obscurity - negs discovered |
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10-12-2009
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Vivian Maier Shooting in Obscurity - negs discovered
A photographer in Chicago recently purchased the negatives of a
photographer from an estate sale and is posting them online. No one
ever heard of her until now. She had 1000 undeveloped rolls of film he
is going thru. This is worth following. He is posting her work here
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/
Last edited by pesphoto : 10-12-2009 at 09:11.
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10-12-2009
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Rainbow Bridge
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First Chicago get Stochl, an now this !!
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10-12-2009
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it's just hide and seek
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Wow, interesting. Thanks for giving that link.
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10-12-2009
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Quite a bit of the photos on the blog are NYC, not Chicago. I'd guess she either visited or lived there for a while.
She had a great eye and skill with that camera. Some very powerful stuff.
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10-12-2009
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Lord of Broken Toys
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Bookmarked. Thanks, it is very cool.
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10-12-2009
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(@)^(@)
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Thanks, PESPHOTO, strong work! I was unable to make out the type of TLR from her picture. Just wondering. :-)
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10-12-2009
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im sure someone can tell us the make of the camera
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10-12-2009
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I think that there's a lesson or two (or three) here for all of us. This woman accomplished this with a twin-lens reflex camera, probably a Rolleiflex. She used just one lens and managed to come up with great compositions with the square format. She wasn't afraid of her subjects, nor were they afraid of her. For the most part they were well aware that she was there.
Think about it next time you agonize over which camera(s) to take, which lenses, how are you ever going to get up the nerve to photograph strangers, OMG! what if they see you? She probably had more than on keeper on every 12 exposure roll too!
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10-12-2009
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Xª (for a year)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Kaplan
I think that there's a lesson or two (or three) here for all of us. This woman accomplished this with a twin-lens reflex camera, probably a Rolleiflex. She used just one lens and managed to come up with great compositions with the square format. She wasn't afraid of her subjects, nor were they afraid of her. For the most part they were well aware that she was there.
Think about it next time you agonize over which camera(s) to take, which lenses, how are you ever going to get up the nerve to photograph strangers, OMG! what if they see you? She probably had more than on keeper on every 12 exposure roll too!
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10-12-2009
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Thanks (as I thread another roll of cheap Arista EDU 400 in the Rolleiflex T)
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Great stuff...It is sad though she was not recognized before her death 
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Rolleiflex
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Originally Posted by pesphoto
im sure someone can tell us the make of the camera
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It's a Rolleiflex for sure. Looks like one of the last models with the smaller focussing knob. MX Type 1 or Type 2. Made up to 1954.
She had a great eye for the square negative.
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10-12-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Kaplan
I think that there's a lesson or two (or three) here for all of us. This woman accomplished this with a twin-lens reflex camera, probably a Rolleiflex. She used just one lens and managed to come up with great compositions with the square format. She wasn't afraid of her subjects, nor were they afraid of her. For the most part they were well aware that she was there.
Think about it next time you agonize over which camera(s) to take, which lenses, how are you ever going to get up the nerve to photograph strangers, OMG! what if they see you? She probably had more than on keeper on every 12 exposure roll too!
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Well put. I recall reading about Ruth Orkin. She asked a male photog for advice and he told her to get a TLR because a girl could not deal with a variety of lenses... she took that famous "American Girl in Italy" shot of a bunch of guys ogling a girl walking down a Rome street.
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I'm just amazed.
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genius and moron
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Beautiful work. I'm quite taken by the similarity of subject matter and vision between her work and some of the early Friedlander work of the early 60's.
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sans bokeh
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wow, impressive, and this a genre that I don't especially care for.
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Tremendous! Thanks for posting this.
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10-12-2009
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Amazing work -- she was obviously someone who thought a lot about what she was doing.
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10-12-2009
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Nikon S2/SP shooter
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Thanks for sharing.
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10-12-2009
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Great story and amazing pictures - thanks for the links. Check out the box of (the remaining) undeveloped rolls on the Flickr page!
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10-12-2009
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Old Guy with a Corgi
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As said, too bad she wasn't recognized before her death. What a wonderful body of work - she was very talented, and must have been very inspired.
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10-12-2009
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Maranatha
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Thanks Pes for the links, truly amazing! What's really sad is even she never saw the end results of her own work with all those undeveloped rolls of film.
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10-12-2009
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1 year, 56 lenses
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Amazing work and I'd love to see more... at the very least a book off her work.
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10-12-2009
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She really had a good eye - some of her photos are captivating. I'm glad you posted the link - this is one story I'll be following.
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