Discovering the Photography of Vivian Maier

[lordnelson79]

F***ing Adverts! I will never buy or use any product or service from a company I HAVE to watch an advert for. Anyway, Amazing story even better photographs!

[crifoter69]

Seeing those intensely focussed sad intelligent eyes zeroed in on her passion makes me wonder about her experiences in Vichy France and how she must have read Michael Harrington's "The Other America". My bet is she cried over both; wish I had the honor of being her friend.

[crifoter69]

Mother Jones magazine did a nice write-up on her work in their May-June 2011 issue. An aware afterlife would be fair and reasonable here.  Great hire, Phil!

[EFISHANT]

get help John! You need help with this project!

[Twostones00]

Anyone who takes pictures for a hobby, especially candid photos of people, knows how many shots you take before you get a keeper. It becomes a learned skill and a goal each time you pick up your camera. It’s not easy, especially with film, when each shot is unseen until later when it is too late to do another. Great photos take great dedication, an eye for details. She had the skill and an eye we could only wish for. She was a gift to us all in a wonderful artistic way.

[jody17]

@Twostones00 a women version of Henri Bresson

[CATniteOwl]

At 1.05 Is a '56 Chevy - that and the dress suggests to me that this particular pic must have ben taken in the 50s.

[mrrogue72]

@CATniteOwl Ya think??

[CATniteOwl]

@mrrogue72 Now, are you being sarcastic?? ;>)

[mrrogue72]

@CATniteOwl  UH YES, were you??

[coolmolly888]

shes not private anymore :) shes on the internet

[spiderman3fan]

This whole story reminds me of every single musical artist that becomes a lot bigger after they die, except Vivan was never famous. I think she would appreciate what they are doing with her photography

[deeway1963]

What a lovely woman! Thanks to John Maloof for discovering the genius of this woman! =)

[TheCL777]

It’s so beautiful how these things happen…

[saibotmark]

fck the commercials!

[Ashroseo2345]

wow.

[BRDfrmthafiveotree]

great stuff

[SSArt98]

I too have many pictures I've taken over the years,all sitting in boxes or photo albums.Some (if I may say so) are very good,at least in my eyes.

What inspired me was just plain Nature & History,love them both.

Dime a dozen...............

[isselman2000]

@SSArt98 Post them on the internet. Become the next Vivian Maier.

[Dekobee]

This inspired me to be a street photographer.

[SuperMarshmallow21]

@Dekobee me to ..... me to.

[multipleverses]

Amazing work- love the portraits. Hopefully we will see more of Vivian's work as all of those negatives are sorted.

[starsonicy123]

:D

[anniehuynh1000]

forth

[mattmax11]

@taurnguard what does your comment have to do with the video

[taurnguard]

@mattmax11 Because before they started the news video, they put up a commercial for Undercover Boss.

[sofruity1]

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