EAN: 9780226599236

VIVIAN MAIER - PAMELA BANNOS KARTONIERT (TB)

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city
for decades  constantly snapping photographs  which were unseen until they were discovered in a
seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of
twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after  the news broke that Maier had
recently died and had no surviving relatives. Soon the whole world knew about her preternatural
work  shooting her to stardom almost overnight. But  as Pamela Bannos reveals in this
meticulous and passionate biography  this story of the nanny savant has blinded us to Maier's
true achievements  as well as her intentions. Most important  Bannos argues  Maier was not a
nanny who moonlighted as a photographer  she was a photographer who supported herself as a
nanny. In Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife  Bannos contrasts Maier's life with
the mythology that strangers--mostly the men who have profited from her work--have created
around her absence. Bannos shows that Maier was extremely conscientious about how her work was
developed  printed  and cropped  even though she also made a clear choice never to display it.
She places Maier's fierce passion for privacy alongside the recent spread of her work around
the world  and she explains Maier's careful adjustments of photographic technique  while
explaining how the photographs have been misconstrued or misidentified. As well  Bannos
uncovers new information about Maier's immediate family  including her difficult brother 
Karl--relatives that once had been thought not to exist. This authoritative and engrossing
biography shows that the real story of Vivian Maier  a true visionary artist  is even more
compelling than the myth.

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