16 January 2010

Vivian Maier

Take a moment to check out this blog from Aline Smithson.  There's a great story about how negatives were almost lost to the dust heap, neglected and re-discovered.  They were finally attributed to a street photographer from Chicago. See more on the photographer's work at John Maloof's blog.  From Eugene Atget to Joel Meyerowitz and maybe even a little Lee Friedlander, 
this traditional form of photography continually informs. It is one of the 
most direct uses of the medium; to simply document what is. There is a 
point of view. But, when done well, there is the photographer. It's where I 
started with photography. When I see work like that of Vivian Maier, I feel the urge to walk out my studio door.

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