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October 21, 2009
Over at Flickr's Hardcore Street Photography (HCSP) site John Maloof says that he has purchased:
a giant lot of negatives from a small auction house here in Chicago. It is the work of Vivian Maier, a French born photographer who recently past away in April of 2009 in Chicago, where she resided. I opened a blog with her work....I have a ton of her work (about 30-40,000 negatives) which ranges in dates from the 1950's-1970's.
Vivian Maier was a Jewish refugee from wartime France a displaced Jewish photographer, who first settled in New York, then lived, worked as a nanny and photographed in Chicago.
Vivian Maier, untitled, circa 1950-1970
The work was done with a twin lens reflex camera (a 1940's Rolleiflex TLR?) and it reminds me a lot of the work produced by both Lisette Model and Helen Levitt.
Vivian Maier, untitled, circa 1950-1970
Some of the work moves away from this classical humanist street photography approach to the odd landscape:
Vivian Maier, untitled, circa 1950-1970
And to architectural work:
Vivian Maier, untitled, circa 1950-1970
Maloof wonders what he is going to do with this body of work he has acquired. The best suggestion I've seen in the comments thread at Hardcore Street Photography is to use Flickr Commons and make it a public digital collection.
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