So I absolutely love Vivian Maier. I remember that there was a time last year when I posted a photograph I had taken (of myself in a glass window) to Facebook and someone had commented on it describing it as "very Vivian Maier". I of course looked her up because I had never heard of her, and fell in love with her work immediately.
Here's the photo I just mentioned:
My personal favorite series that she's known for are her self-portraits. As soon as we were assigned this appropriation project I knew I was going to pick her for my "my choice" photograph. I wanted to recreate one of her self-portraits. The reason I love these and find them so interesting is because of the many different ways that she finds to include herself into the photo. Sometimes all we see if her shadow, whereas other times she's hidden in the reflection. What I love about her reflection photographs are the fact that you can focus on what's behind the glass and then switch your focus to her on the other side.
Obviously Vivian Maier does much more than these self-portraits though. She's really an amazing street photographer. I highly suggest looking at the site I linked with her name up top and going through her portfolio. Her work is very impressive to me and I think she has a great variety of both color and black and white photographs.
Yes the OG selfie taker. I love her work and I love how she is in all of her work
ReplyDeleteI find it hilarious to compare 'selfies' from the past to have stricken faces, while selfie's these days are completely forced/comical.
ReplyDeleteI was introduce to the artist by watching the documentary on her. I wonder how I would have reacted to her photography had I found her the way you had instead of hearing her personal story as I was exposed to her work.
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