The original, recognized classic publication that caused a stir worldwide. The first book to introduce the life and work of Vivian Maier: Vivian Maier: Street Photographer.
A good street photographer needs a range of talents: an eye for detail, light and composition; perfect timing; a populist or humanitarian vision; and the tireless ability to keep photographing without missing a moment.
Finding all of these qualities in trained photographers who benefit from education, mentors, and a supportive community of fellow artists and enthusiasts is a challenge, but it is exceptionally rare to see this in someone with no formal training and no network of peers.
Yet Vivian Maier embodied all of these qualities: a professional nanny who took more than 100,000 photographs around the world from the nineteen-fifties through the nineteen-nineties—from France to New York City, Chicago and many other places—without ever showing the results to anyone.
The photographs in this edition are remarkable both for the scope of the work and for the consistently high quality of its humorous, moving, beautiful and raw images of every aspect of urban life in America’s postwar golden age.
Her body of work became known only after local historian John Maloof bought a box of Maier’s negatives at a Chicago auction and began collecting and promoting her extraordinary photographs. Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, presented here in print for the first time, collects the best of her incredible, unseen work.
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
Pages: 136
Price: €36.81
Publisher: powerHouse Books
