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A great tale of self-determination, courage and incorruptible creativity.
Background information
"Today, Vivian MAIER is one of the stars of street photography, comparable to legends such as Helen LEVITT or Diane ARBUS. But no one ever saw a single photo of her during her lifetime. She worked as a nanny for forty years and took 140,000 photographs. An impressive body of work that she never showed to anyone until her death.
Since the sensational discovery of her pictures at a forced sale and the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Finding Vivian Maier', her photographs have gone around the world, been celebrated by critics and the public and exhibited in all renowned galleries. Photographs of streets in France, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, which bear witness to great empathy, humor and such a fine sense of light, symmetry and color that it is hard to believe that the woman behind the camera was a mysterious loner.
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In her carefully researched biography 'Das Leben der Vivian Maier. Die Nanny mit der Kamera' (The Life of Vivian Maier: The Nanny with the Camera, the title of the 2021 English-language original is 'Vivian Maier Developed. The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny'), Ann Marks takes a closer look at a woman who fled parental rejection, experiences of violence and her family's addiction and mental illness to discover her love of photography. 368 pages, translated by Nina Frey and Hans-Christian Oeser." (© Steidl Verlag, 2023)