Photographer, which no one knows (72 photos) Bashny.Net

Information about the woman you are unlikely to find. She is not famous photographer. When her life, none of her work was not even published.

However, to call her lover does not turn language. Her name is Vivian Maier, it became known only after his death, in 2009, when the real estate agent John Malofey bought several boxes from the warehouse storage belonging to no one.

September 10th, 1955, New York City



In these boxes it finds about 100,000 negatives and undeveloped films. When he began to scan them, caught his breath.

The negatives were turned into great pictures of the genre of street photography, which were filmed in the 60s, 70s. The next day, after he posted some pictures of the network, he received about 200 proposals to make an exhibition or to make a documentary about Vivien and its history.







Vivienne lifetime photographed, but no one showed their work. Otschelkivaya 200 films a year, she showed them in your own room, turning it into a photo lab. It has never been interested in publishing their pictures. Her archive includes over 100,000 negatives that she cherish forever.







She never earned on his passion, moreover, the circle of her acquaintances never knew about this passion for photography. It was only after his death, by chance, these frames have become a part of history. Now modern speakers on them talk about fashion and life of that era.











Most of his life Vivien lived in Chicago and worked as a governess in affluent families. All his spare time, she wandered through the streets of the city with a Rolleiflex camera and create amazing black and white photographs, which to this day very well convey the culture of American life in the middle of the last century.











We should tell a story about how creativity Vivienne became public, because this is the case, which may be called divine providence.











Fast forward to the recent past: 2007, Chicago. John Maloof - 26 year old guy who works real estate agent, is writing a book about the residents of Chicago. Once he gets to the auction, where $ 400 buys a few boxes from the warehouse storage belonging to no one. "Maybe this will help in the writing of the book," - he thought. When he saw the pictures, he stopped breathing. On one of the boxes, John found the name of the photographer - Vivian Maier. DO SEARCH photographer, he went to a family which lived Vivien. The family gave her a collection of personal items - a suitcase with clothes, boxes of newspaper clippings, photos and manifest its photo equipment.











The life story of the photographer puzzles surprises and conquers, forcing to think, it is important to seek recognition of their works? Perhaps the real art does not need external evaluations, perhaps, all life should be created without the desire to please and go down in history ...











The life of the Vivienne little information, some sources are its origins in France, while others say that it comes from New York. Her mother was French and Austrian father. As a child she often moved from France to the United States, but its exact place of residence, no one knows.











At the age of 25 Vivienne came to the United States where her career began with street confectionery, and then for 40 years worked as a nanny, 14 of them with one family.









She wore men's trousers, men's shoes and almost always wide-brimmed hat. Remembering what it was, her former pupils described his nurse: "She was a socialist, feminist, film critic, and of that breed of people that always tell the truth in the face, whatever it was».









Her character was quite closed, but it's always good to get along with children who are growing up in families where she worked and lived. In his old age, when these children learned about her plight, they bought her an apartment and pay the bills. In 2008, Vivian aged 82 years unsuccessfully slipped on the ice received a head injury. A year later, she died in a nursing home.











Today, experts have work Vivian Maier on a par with the famous street photographers of the 20th century.











Urban walks Vivienne immortalized many street scenes of Chicago, reflecting the sadness and happiness of classical representatives of the mid XX century. For a long time belonged only to her creativity, moreover, no one can say whether the time to learn about your Vivienne success and recognition to death.











Her first exhibition was held in Norway in 2010, and the second was launched in January «Chicago Cultural Center». Now John Malofey working on untreated films and negatives and plans to release a book of photographs Vivian Maier.