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is known that the reality surpasses ficcion.He is a good example.
's story Vivian Maier is one that began after living in absolute anonymity, unknown to his 'hobby' spent years accumulating thousands upon thousands of films, silent testimony of a city and a lifetime. Portraying the passage of his eyes through the streets and the people of Chicago. Building slowly and passionately artistic legacy immeasurable perhaps without even knowing it.
Vivian Maier, a woman of French arrived in the United States as a child, I felt an overwhelming passion for photography. He died on April 21, 2009 at 83 years old with no sense that his work even reach a huge popular success, and all it owes to an estate agent lover of antiques.
In 2007, a boy of 26 year-old John Maloof, the agent mentioned above, attended a public auction of furniture and antiques you purchased for $ 400 a box filled with 30,000 negatives.
Maloof slowly began to reveal the negative, obtaining copies of surprisingly good quality. Photographs were taken mainly in the streets of Chicago in the decades of 60 and 70 by a nurse and amateur photographer named Vivian Maier, but Maloof at the time unaware of the identity of the artist.
The poor woman could not cope with the debts of the home, so he had to give up some of their most prized possessions.
Maloof was so fascinated with his work that was decided to purchase the remaining boxes of negatives of Maier, which reaches its collection of 100,000 images. Some of them were also taken on a beach, which Maier came to the family who was hired as a nanny.
Maloof did not know any information from the author of the photographs. In one of his last Shopping negative, the agent found his name written in pencil on the envelope of a photograph. He went to Google to try to know who Vivian Maier, but what was the note had settled the mysterious street photographer. She had died just the day before the discovery.
As happened with one of the most admired poets from the United States, Emily Dickinson, our nanny character died without knowing that his work would reach unprecedented popularity after his death.
Maloof continued their search. In a century-old photo shop vaguely reminiscent of Chicago, said of her that came from time to time to buy negative, and was very introverted.
Today, with a truly astonishing rate, the critics have been quick to hail the work of this unknown amateur cone one of the best compendia of street photography of the twentieth century.
In his honor, John Maloof has created the blog Vivianmaier.blogspot.co
Here you can enjoy more fully the work of this solitary and singular artist.
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