On Vivian Maier - Naomi Cass / Andrew Stephens (Sat 04 Oct 2014)

Street Portrait - Valletta / Malta (Sun 21 Sep 2014)
Andrew Stephens (*) writes on Vivian Maier (*):

the almost magical appearance of Maier's work, as if it had been conjured, has not only inspired much further creativity and contemplation about the nature of photography, it has also shown how their own interests and approaches have crossed paths with Maier's.

Naomi Cass (*) expands Vivian Maier (*) Influence (*) on the Past (*), Present (*) and Identity (*):

We always need to think of a way of activating the past with respect to the present. We couldn't assume Maier to have had an influence on contemporary practice, however all the artists in this exhibition are acutely aware of not just her work but the complexity of her identity.

via Maier's portraits are an unexpected gift (*) by Andrew Stephens (*).

A great article and probably the most interesting I have read on Vivian Maier (*). Her work has become well known and her influence is expanding into interesting and diverse areas of the art world.

On Vivian Maier - Laura Hutson (Thu 16 Jul 2015)

Staircase (Blue) - Courtauld Gallery / Somerset House / London (Mon 15 Sep 2014)

Laura Hutson on Vivian Maier:

Vivian Maier is a perfect storm of populism [..] Maier is firmly nestled in the greater canon of modern photography already. It only took a lifetime of hiding her work and a chance discovery to get there

via Self-portraits and street photographs by Vivian Maier are brilliant and haunting by Laura Hutson.

On Vivian Maier - Tim Belden (Mon 15 Sep 2014)

Street Portrait (*) - Westminster Bridge / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Tim Belden (*) writes on Vivian Maier (*):

Vivian is like anybody who gets intensely into an art form. She went to museums, saw other photographers, but was never schooled or trained. So she took the best of what she saw, internalized it, and then she worked obsessively.

via Vivian Maier | September 2014 Notables (*) by Tim Belden (*).

Westminster Bridge had been closed for the final stage of the 2014 Tour of Great Britain. The Teams had used the Bridge to park the their buses and the crowds were allowed to mingle and walk along the Bridge. The sun was low and as it usual does at that of the day, had broken through, and those walking back to Westminster Tube Station were beautifully lit. I love the detail of the face and the shadow of his chin. This is my favourite. Maybe Vivian Maier (*) has been a role model to me. Thinking about it, I should definitely think so.

"she had it" - Finding Vivian Maier (2014)

Paris is Calling - Newtown (Mon 07 May 2018)

Finding Vivian Maier on Having It:

She didn't have these measures of status that people aspire to but she didn't have to compromise with it. She did what she wanted. That's what she taught me. She got the life she wanted. She had it.

via Finding Vivian Maier by Finding Vivian Maier.

On Vivian Maier - Joel Meyerowitz (2013)

self portrait - ATP / Redfern (Mon 11 Jun 2018)

Joel Meyerowitz on Vivian Maier:

To go up and photograph a stranger on the street you have to hold your ground and be fearless and take what you want because it is yours.

via Vivian Maier BBC Imagine (2013) by Joel Meyerowitz.

Will see an exhibition of Vivian Maier photos in Vienna in mid-July.

On Vivian Maier - Jerry Saltz / Vulture (Sun 30 Jun 2014)

An Observer (*) - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Jerry Saltz (*) writes On Vivian Maier (*):

She was a servant of her talent (*), compelled to use her servitude (*) to make what she needed to make. [..]

Bells go off when you look at her pictures; you become witness to something big. Proust talked of "the apogee of the particular." That's here. This gives Maier's work psychological and philosophical force, something deeply observant. At the same time, she also has an outsider's (*) view of the world. She's one who watches, silently observes (*), is alert to the tiniest disturbance in the visual or psychic field. [..] The valor of being alive comes into focus.

via Jerry Saltz on Finding Vivian Maier: An Invisible Artist and the Man Who Found Her (*) by Jerry Saltz (*).

On Photography and Vivian Maier - Ella Taylor (Fri 28 Mar 2914)

Pink Balloon - Madrid (Sun 11 Aug 2013)
Ella Taylor (*) writes On Vivian Maier (*), photography (*) and maybe a few more of us:

Perhaps she just loved taking pictures; perhaps they kept her company or even prevented her, for a while, from falling apart. Perhaps it never crossed her mind that she was an artist.

via 'Vivian Maier' Brings Nanny-Photographer's Life Into Focus (*) by Ella Taylor (*).

In 2010 as I struggled with the loss of Jenny (*), those around me were concerned. So I am thankful to my Mother who suggested I should try to get back into my photography and Jo, who independently, suggested I start to organise my photos. And so I did (*), and still do ..

On Artwork and Vivian Maier - Jeffrey Goldstein / Thomas Barnett (Fri 08 Aug 2014)

Art Gallery - Chippendale (Wed 01 Apr 2015)

Jeffrey Goldstein on Artwork and Vivian Maier:

artwork isn’t artwork until it’s shown

via The beautiful desecration of Vivian Maier by Thomas Barnett.

The Wheel of Life - Vivian Maier / Tintin Törncrantz (Thu 09 Jun 2016)

Statues - White Rabbit Gallery / Chippendale (Sat 11 Jun 2016)

Vivian Maier on The Wheel of Life:

We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel – you get on, you go to the end, and someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end, and so on, and somebody else takes their place. There’s nothing new under the sun.

via Spain : Miss Maier by Tintin Törncrantz - The Eye of Photography by Tintin Törncrantz.

On Recognition - artlyst (Sat 27 Dec 2014)

Untitled - The Met / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
artlyst (*) writes on Recognition (*) and Vivian Maier (*):

After a lifetime in domestic servitude, secretly documenting the streets of America through 100,000 photographs, Maier had died in great old-age, and in poverty - just on the edge of global recognition - never to know that her work would even receive a glimmer of praise, or understanding.

via Vivian Maier: The Secret Photographer Gets A Retrospective In Amsterdam (*) by artlyst (*).

On Photography - Manic Habit - Gaby Wood (Mon 11 Mar 2013)

Reflection - Seoul / South Korea (Tue 11 Sep 2012)
Gaby Wood (*) writes about Vivian Maier (*):

Though the images themselves are full of composure, there is something magnificently manic about Maier’s habit: she was a kind of non-fiction outsider artist, insistent on a record, constantly clicking a shutter as if to prove that the only way of being was looking.

via Vivian Maier: Afterlife of the invisible woman (*) by Gaby Wood (*)

On Art - Thomas Barnett (Fri 08 Aug 2014)

Scaffolding (* - Just off Oxford Street / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)
Thomas Barnett (*) writes On Art (*):

the most fundamental of questions about art – if it has no audience, does it exist?

via The beautiful desecration of Vivian Maier (*) by Thomas Barnett (*). More on Vivian Maier (*).

Powerhouse Books - DUMBO / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Powerhouse Books - DUMBO / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
You can see the reflection of the Manhattan Bridge in the window of the Book Store (*), which published the Vivian Maier book (*). Compositionally, this photo is very similar to yesterdays (*).

Detail - Powerhouse Books - DUMBO / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Doing - John Maloof / Chicago Tonight (31 Jul 2012)

"working on nemlog - a labour of love" - UTS (Thu 31 May 2018)

John Maloof on Doing:

There’s so much work that I am doing. There’s times when it’s overwhelming to the point where I have anxiety about how much there is to do, and how little I have done with all the work I put in.

Sometimes there’s quiet moments when I am just scanning by myself and I just think wow, it’s amazing that I’m doing this. That someone like me is doing this.

via Vivian Maier / Chicago Tonight (July 31, 2012) by Chicago Tonight.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson (1891)

Self Portrait - near Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation / Paris (Thu 18 Sep 2014)

Emily Dickinson (*) Poem (*):

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Seen in Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier (*)