Vivan maier

Oh! Wow - Vivian Maier, Untitled, Self-portrait.

Finding Vivian Maier

Two years before Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, 30,000 of her negatives were bought at a Chicago thrift auction by former estate agent John Maloof. He was writing a book on Chicago history. Maier had been unable to pay the rental on a storage locker. So 100,000 of her unseen negatives housed … Continue reading "Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York"

These 10 images from a newly published set of portraits show an unexpected side of the Chicago photographer.

These are mere personal thoughts and notes, I have no critique background nor did I receive any formal training fort that field and purpose. But I feel the work of Vivian Maier requires some study.…

“Vivian Maier”

Today’s photo challenge is “half and half” so I chose a few pictures cut in the middle. I was spoiled for choice today. Above is a shop keeper having a smoke at her door-step. Berlin steps, outside the Bundestag building. Olafur Eliasson’s installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Reflection of a street off the rooftop of a parked car in Prague. The encounter of two groups of horsemen on “Sword Beach” in Normandy.

We bring you a selection of 20 Black and White Self-Portraits by Vivian Maier.

© Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier-Girl in Car- When you consider that Vivian Meyer was a street photographer and that she most likely spent only a few minutes with this girl whom she did not know, her ability to get her subject to drop their usual public mask is quite extraordinary- something every portraitist hopes for but often does not find.