Homage to Vivian Maier
I love the mysterious story of Vivian Maier; I love her work even more. Her style of Street Photography appeals to me more than any other street photographer and her images speak to me like no other street photographs.
Inspiration to pay homage to Vivian Maier came to me through heartfelt emotion. From that very moment I felt compelled to connect with that energy, to explore it, to build on it, to own it. That moment of creative joy inspired me to create this body of images in homage to Vivian Maier; an introverted, somewhat awkward women who gave the world a priceless gift – a view of the world as she saw it through her heart, eyes and camera lens.
For nearly forty years starting around 1956 Vivian Maier, who worked as a nanny, walked the streets of Chicago and area suburbs with her square format Rolleiflex twin lens camera, recording the world and people around her in an amazing self-taught style. Little did she know her quiet passion would become the talk of the photographic community shortly after her death in 2009. Prior to her passing no one with exception of people who processed and printed her photos ever saw her extraordinary work.
Much of her personal property and enormous collection of negatives and photographs were kept in a Chicago storage locker. Her work was discovered after she was unable to keep up the payments on the locker and all the items in it were sold at auction. And that was the beginning of one of the biggest photographic mysteries of all time. To this day no one really knows what her motivation was for creating well over 150,000 photographs in her spare time, or what she intended to do with her oeuvre. Regardless of what her vision was I am eternally happy her work was discovered and shared with art lovers of the world.
I am proud of this body of work. It represents over two years of planning, traveling, hundreds of images created on the streets, as well as hours of editing and post-processing. Moreover, it reflects my view of people and the world through my heart, eyes and camera lens.
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Inspiration to pay homage to Vivian Maier came to me through heartfelt emotion. From that very moment I felt compelled to connect with that energy, to explore it, to build on it, to own it. That moment of creative joy inspired me to create this body of images in homage to Vivian Maier; an introverted, somewhat awkward women who gave the world a priceless gift – a view of the world as she saw it through her heart, eyes and camera lens.
For nearly forty years starting around 1956 Vivian Maier, who worked as a nanny, walked the streets of Chicago and area suburbs with her square format Rolleiflex twin lens camera, recording the world and people around her in an amazing self-taught style. Little did she know her quiet passion would become the talk of the photographic community shortly after her death in 2009. Prior to her passing no one with exception of people who processed and printed her photos ever saw her extraordinary work.
Much of her personal property and enormous collection of negatives and photographs were kept in a Chicago storage locker. Her work was discovered after she was unable to keep up the payments on the locker and all the items in it were sold at auction. And that was the beginning of one of the biggest photographic mysteries of all time. To this day no one really knows what her motivation was for creating well over 150,000 photographs in her spare time, or what she intended to do with her oeuvre. Regardless of what her vision was I am eternally happy her work was discovered and shared with art lovers of the world.
I am proud of this body of work. It represents over two years of planning, traveling, hundreds of images created on the streets, as well as hours of editing and post-processing. Moreover, it reflects my view of people and the world through my heart, eyes and camera lens.
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