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Vivian Maier

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A retrospective view of Vivian Maier’s photographic archive

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A retrospective view of Vivian Maier’s photographic archive

This hardcover monograph surveys Vivian Maier’s work through a retrospective lens, placing her extensive archive in the context of a life spent largely working as a governess in New York and Chicago. Primarily associated with street photography, Maier left behind more than 150,000 images alongside films, recordings, and undeveloped material. Drawing on previously unpublished archive material and recent scientific analysis, the volume examines the breadth of that body of work and its later emergence after the archive’s 2007 discovery. Texts by Anne Morin and Christa Bl accompany the photographs, adding context to an artist whose work became widely known only after her death.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in twentieth-century American photography
  • Street-photography enthusiasts
  • Collectors of individual-photographer monographs

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Street photographyPhotographic archivesPosthumous recognitionTwentieth-century American photographyArtistry and documentation

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When Vivian Maier's archive was discovered in Chicago in 2007, the photography community gained an immense and singular talent. Little-known during her lifetime, Maier is now recognized as one of the great American photographers of the twentieth century. Born in New York in 1926 to an Austro-Hungarian father and French mother, she lived in France several times in her youth and worked as a governess in New York and Chicago for much of her adult life. It was during her years as a governess that she took many of the photographs that have made her posthumously famous. Now the subject of films and books, Maier lived in relative obscurity until her death in 2009.

Maier's incredible body of work consists of more than 150,000 photographic images, super 8 and 16 mm films, various recordings, and a multitude of undeveloped films. Working primarily as a street photographer, Maier's work has been compared with such luminaries as Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Joel Meyerowitz.

Thanks to unpublished archives and recent scientific analyses, this retrospective volume sheds new light on Maier's work as it documents the artistry of her photographic oeuvre. With texts by Anne Morin and Christa Bl

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