VIVIAN MAIER

1926-2009

KRISTINA KONDRATJEVA

JULIA SCETINA

RISEBA UNIVERSITY

VISUAL SEMIOTICS

06.02.2013

WAS AN AMERICAN AMATEUR STREET PHOTOGRAPHER WHO WAS BORN IN NEW YORK BUT GREW UP IN FRANCE,AND AFTER RETURNING TO THE U.S., WORKED FOR ABOUT FORTY YEARS AS A NANNY IN CHICAGO, DURINK THOSE YEARS SHE TOOK ABOUT 100,000 PHOTOGRAPHS, PRIMARILY OF PEOPLE AND CITYSCAPES IN CHICAGO, ALTHOUGH SHE TRAVELED AND PHOTOGRAPHED IN WORLDWIDE

VIVIAN MAIER

SHE WAS A SOCIALIST, A FEMINIST, A MOVIE CRITIC, AND A TELL-IT-LIKE-IT-IS TYPE OF PERSON.SHE WORE A MENS JACKET, MENS SHOES, AND A LARGE HAT MOST OF THE TIME. SHE WAS CONSTANTLY TAKING PICTURES, WHICH SHE DIDN’T SHOW ANYONE

VIVIEN MAIER

VIVIAN MAIER PHOTOGRAPHYHER IMAGES DEPICT STREET SCENES IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK IN THE 1950s AND 1960s.

HER PHOTOGRAPHS DEMONSTRATE AN INTIMATE EXPLORATION OF FAMILY LIFE.

MAIERS PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE WAY THEY WERE DISCOVERED, RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

ROLLEFLEX PHOTOAPPARAT

VIVIAN MAIERMAIER COLLECTED RECORDED AUDIOTAPES OF CONVERSATIONS SHE HAD WITH THE PEOPLE SHE PHOTOGRAPHED.

HER WORK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNET AT JULY 2008 BY RON SLATTERY

IN 2011 WAS REALESTED A BOOK WITH MAIERS PHOTOGRAPHS

IN 2012 DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT MAIERS AND MALOOFS DISCOVERY OF HER WORK, TITLED “FINDING VIVIEN MAIER” IS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE.

VIVIAN MAIER

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7297794n

JOHN MALOOF

• 26-YEAR OLD ESTATE AGENT

• MALOOF BOUGHT 30,000 PRINTS AND NEGATIVES FROM AN AUCTION HOUSE

• AFTER PURCHASING THE FIRST COLLECTION OF MIER PHOTOGRAPHS IN 2007, MALOOF ACQUIRED THE REST FROM ANOTHER BUYER AT THE SAME AUCTION.

• IN 2009 MALOOF STARTED TO POST SOME OF MAIERS PHOTOGRAPHS IN BLOG.

JEFF GOLDESTEIN

HE WAS ABLE TO ACQUIRE 57 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM RON SLATTERY.

NAW JEFF COLLECTION INCLUDES 12,000 NEGATIVES,, 700 PRINTS, 20 HOMEMADE MOOVIES.

“It took me days to look through all of her work. It inspired me to pick up photography myself. Little by little, as I progressed as a photographer, I would revisit Vivian's negatives and I would "see" more in her work. I bought her same camera and took to the same streets soon to realize how difficult it was to make images of her caliber. I discovered the eye she had for photography through my own practice. Needless to say, I am attached to her work.”

JEFF GOLDESTEIN

SHADOWS

SOURCESBooks

Vivien Maier: Street Photographer (2011)

Vivien Maier: Out of the Shadows (2012)

Walker Evants: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Annyversary Edition (2012)

Internet

http://www.vivianmaier.com

http://vivianmaierprints.com/

THANKYOU!