This is off-topic, but worth a weekend post. Vivian Maier was a photographer and more than likely you have never heard of her. Head on over to Mother Jones to see just how good she was.
“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE measure of Vivian Maier’s photos without taking stock of her story. She was by all accounts remarkably private, someone who didn’t always enjoy the company of other adults. And yet her photographs feel like a celebration of people—a celebration of what Studs Terkel, the late grand oral historian, liked to call “the etceteras” of the world. (One photography scholar I spoke with suggested Terkel and Maier would have made a formidable pair, like James Agee and Walker Evans.) Her subjects are often caught looking directly at the camera, apparently making eye contact with Maier, but she used a Rolleiflex, a box-shaped camera that requires the photographer to look downwards through the viewfinder.”
Great shots. Real life. Thanks for posting this. There are so many things to be appreciated that we never know existed until someone points them out.
Bob
I saw this some time back, and was hugely impressed. Sad to say, the first thing that came to mind was the likelihood of there being copyright problems in the publication of the photographs…