DOCSLIB.ORG

Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY 1959, Grenoble © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY DOSSIER DE PRESSE EXPOSITION TEMPORAIRE 9 NOVEMBRE 2019 – 15 MARS 2020 VIVIAN MAIER STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Photographe de rue américaine non révélée de son vivant, Vivian Maier (1926-2009) laisse derrière elle une somme d’archives photographiques qui témoignent de sa curiosité pour le monde. Une présentation de plus de 130 images, vues de New York et Chicago pour l’essentiel, mais aussi du Champsaur, sans oublier quelques témoignages de son passage, en 1959, à Grenoble. AVEC LA COLLABORATION DE DOSSIER DE PRESSE SOMMAIRE L’édito p.3 Communiqué de presse p.4 Vivian Maier au Musée de l'Ancien Évêché p.5 Vivian Maier I Biographie p.6 Autour de l’exposition p. 7 Images mises à disposition de la presse p. 9 Le Musée de l’Ancien Évêché I Brève présentation p.12 Informations pratiques p. 13 Le réseau des musées départementaux p. 14 CONTACT PRESSE Cécile Sapin : [email protected] - 04 76 03 15 25 Musée de l’Ancien Évêché, 2 rue Très-Cloîtres, 38000 Grenoble 04 76 03 15 25 - www.ancien-eveche-isere.fr Vivian Maier. Street photographer - Dossier de presse - Exposition du 9 novembre 2019 au 15 mars 2020 - Musée de l’Ancien Évêché à Grenoble L’ÉDITO Le Musée de l’Ancien Évêché a pour habitude de nous emmener sur les traces de photographes connus ou inconnus pour mieux interroger le regard porté sur notre territoire et notre histoire. On se souvient des expositions Les Alpes de Doisneau en 2012 ou Le spectacle des rues et des chemins. Joseph Apprin (1890-1908) en 2015. Aujourd’hui, c’est une femme photographe qui est mise à l’honneur : Vivian Maier. Originaire du Champsaur par sa mère, cette gouvernante d’enfants a vécu aux États-Unis. Une vie invisible qui ne se raconte pas. Pourtant, passionnée de photographie, elle a constitué une œuvre photographique considérable, une œuvre qui raconte la vie et dont elle ne connaitra pas la postérité. Les travaux photographiques de Vivian Maier, sortis de l’ombre, composent aujourd’hui une œuvre brillante qui la classe parmi les grands noms de la street photography. Et si pour l’essentiel ses images nous conduisent à New York et à Chicago au milieu du 20e siècle, elle a aussi posé son regard sur le Champsaur et Grenoble. Quelques images qui témoignent de sa curiosité pour la vie quotidienne de notre région. Cette exposition met en lumière un travail dense et réfléchi. Il révèle le talent d’une femme dont les travaux participent aujourd’hui de notre mémoire. Jean-Pierre Barbier Président du Département de l’Isère Vivian Maier. Street photographer - Dossier de presse - Exposition du 9 novembre 2019 au 15 mars 2020 - Musée de l’Ancien Évêché à Grenoble COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE VIVIAN MAIER STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Photographe de rue américaine non révélée de son vivant, Vivian Maier (1926-2009) laisse derrière elle une somme d’archives photographiques qui témoignent de sa curiosité pour le monde. Un plongeon dans la seconde moitié du 20e siècle, entre l’Amérique, où elle vivait, et le Champsaur, cette vallée des Hautes- Alpes où elle revint pour un voyage initiatique sur les terres de ses ancêtres. Aujourd’hui exhumées, ses photos composent une œuvre superbe et émouvante, rivalisant avec les plus grands noms de la street photography américaine comme de la photo humaniste à la française. Le musée expose cette artiste « hors cadre » autour d’une présentation de plus de 130 images, vues de New York et Chicago pour l’essentiel, mais aussi du Champsaur, sans oublier quelques témoignages de son passage, en 1959, à Grenoble. L’exposition Vivian Maier. Street photographer est réalisée avec la collaboration de diChroma photography et l’aimable autorisation de Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Le fonds français Vivian Maier est mis à disposition par l’Association Vivian Maier et le Champsaur. Autoportrait © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY Vivian Maier. Street photographer - Dossier de presse - Exposition du 9 novembre 2019 au 15 mars 2020 - Musée de l’Ancien Évêché à Grenoble VIVIAN MAIER AU MUSÉE DE L'ANCIEN ÉVÊCHÉ Restée inconnue jusqu’alors, Vivian Maier (1926-2009) est aujourd’hui élevée « au rang des plus grands photographes emblématiques de la street photography, et figur[e] dans l’histoire aux côtés de Diane Arbus, Robert Franck, Helen Levitt ou Garry Winogrand » comme l’explicite Anne Morin, commissaire de l’exposition Vivian Maier. Street photographer présentée au musée. Ses travaux ne sont pas non plus sans rappeler ceux de Robert Doisneau, photographe humaniste. Des démarches photographiques qui interrogent les territoires et leurs habitants, et rencontrent ainsi les sujets de prédilection du Musée de l’Ancien Évêché. Installée à New York puis Chicago, c’est ici que Vivian Maier, gouvernante d’enfants, a donné libre cours à sa passion et a réalisé l’essentiel de ses travaux. Munie de son Rolleiflex puis de son Leica, elle a photographié inlassablement des scènes de rue, des petites gens et des bourgeois, des univers d’enfants, sans oublier des autoportraits, compositions dans lesquelles elle excelle. Un geste, une expression, une situation. Des formes, des rythmes, des matières. Vivian Maier est en quête perpétuelle d’images et fait de la vie son langage photographique. Elle laisse aujourd’hui, sans le savoir, une œuvre reconnue, à la fois « imposante, dense, lumineuse et brillante » précise Anne Morin. L’histoire de Vivian Maier s’inscrit aussi dans les Alpes dauphinoises. Originaire du Champsaur par sa mère, elle a vécu six années de son enfance à Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur. Elle y revient ensuite à deux reprises : en 1950, pour régler l’héritage de sa grand-tante et, en 1959, au retour d’un long voyage autour du monde. Lors de ses deux séjours, elle réalise une série de clichés pris en toute liberté, portant son regard sur les gens du village et les activités de la campagne, dans une vision humaniste et pittoresque. Des images sont aussi réalisées à Grenoble. Un ancrage territorial de son œuvre mis en valeur à travers quelques clichés exposés avec la collaboration de l’association Vivian Maier et le Champsaur, présidée par Marie Hugues. C’est à John Maloof, jeune historien, que l’on doit l’invention de Vivian Maier et de son œuvre. Une œuvre qui aurait pu disparaitre s’il n’avait acquis, lors d’une vente aux enchères, des malles sorties d’un garde- meuble et contenant plus de 120 000 négatifs, des centaines de films Super 8 et 16 mm, et des enregistrements divers. Subjugué par ces trésors dont il est le détenteur, Maloof met un point d’honneur à les populariser : sur Internet, dans les musées et même dans les salles obscures. En 2011, au Centre culturel de Chicago, il présente une exposition qui reçoit un immense succès. C’est ainsi qu’est révélée cette grande dame de la photographie qui avait fait de sa passion son jardin secret et dont l’œuvre jouit désormais d’une reconnaissance posthume dans le monde entier. L’EXPOSITION Présentée sur quatre salles, l’exposition se dévoile à travers une déambulation ou une libre promenade au cœur des images de Vivian Maier. Pas de thématiques mises en exergue mais la présence de ses autoportraits, valorisés tout au long des photographies exposées, place la photographe au cœur de son œuvre : Vivian Maier est dans la rue et au milieu des gens qu’elle offre à notre regard. Un espace est réservé aux 13 clichés pris dans le Champsaur. Au total, ce sont 119 clichés noir et blanc et 20 clichés en couleur qui sont présentés sur des cimaises aux teintes gris anthracite et jaune. Des planches-contacts et une petite sélection de ses films complètent l’ensemble. La mise en espace a été réalisée par Corinne Tourrasse, graphiste à Grenoble. Vivian Maier. Street photographer - Dossier de presse - Exposition du 9 novembre 2019 au 15 mars 2020 - Musée de l’Ancien Évêché à Grenoble VIVIAN MAIER | BIOGRAPHIE 1926 Vivian Maier naît à New York le 1er février, d’un père d’origine austro-hongroise, Karl Maier, et d’une mère française, Marie Jaussaud, née à Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur (Hautes-Alpes). Elle a un frère, Karl, de six ans son aîné. 1927 Le couple Maier se sépare. Carl est confié à la garde de ses grands-parents paternels, Vivian reste avec sa mère. La photographe Jeanne Bertrand héberge Vivian Maier et sa mère. 1932 Marie, sans emploi, retourne vivre en France avec la petite Vivian. Elle s’installe chez sa tante, Marie- Florentine Jaussaud, au domaine de Beauregard, à Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur. Elle sera scolarisée six années durant à l’école communale. 1938 Retour à New York pour la mère et la fille. 1950-1951 Vivian Maier revient en Champsaur pour percevoir l’héritage de sa grand-tante décédée. Ce pécule lui permettra de faire un long voyage. Elle effectue des prises de vue avec un appareil Kodak. 1951 Elle se rend à Cuba, au Canada et en Californie, et devient gouvernante pour gagner sa vie. 1952 Munie d’un appareil de marque Rolleiflex, elle photographie la vie quotidienne des rues de New York. 1955 Elle se rend à Los Angeles et y travaille. 1956 Elle déménage à Chicago et devient gouvernante dans la famille Gensburg. Elle y restera 17 ans. Elle installe un laboratoire photographique dans sa salle de bain pour y développer ses négatifs. 1959-1960 Voyage de six mois autour du monde au départ de Los Angeles : Thaïlande, Inde, Yémen, Égypte, Europe. Elle termine son périple en passant par l’Italie, la France, le Champsaur et Grenoble, où elle réalise quelques clichés.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The President's Corner 1
    VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2 JAN-MAR 2015 The President’s Corner vision, craftsmanship, and art, have influ‐ enced the photography of many of us at the Thinking About club and across the photosphere. Spring, (continued on next page) Influencers, and Gestures By David Marshak In This Issue page As we all try to The President's Corner 1 endure this end‐ by Dave Marshak less winter (and SW Trek II 3 wish we were in Florida with our esteemed by Joe Kennedy treasurer), my thoughts turn to spring. Results of the Newsletter Survey 7 by Ellen Berenson I am thinking of a spring that will not only be the end of winter, but also the calling of New Member Interviews 9 new photo opportunities that will get us out by Janet Casey of the house and back in the woods, by the Reflections on Vivian Maier 11 shore, or on the street. by Deb Maynard Exploring Portrait Photography 12 For SBCC, spring will bring an exciting set of by Orin Siliya guest speakers including three who have SBCC Holiday Banquet 16 presented to us multiple times before – Ron by Kirsten Torkelson Rosenstock, Joe LeFevre, and Mark Bowie – SBCC Programming: What's Next? 19 and whom I personally have seen speak in other venues many times. It is exactly for by Janet Casey the same reason that I’ve seen them before Meeting Schedule 27 that I am very excited to see them again. It’s List of Club Officers and Committees 28 because I put them in the category of Influ‐ encers—people who, with their unique (continued from previous page) Gesture makes the photo interesting.
    [Show full text]
  • Vivian Maier: a Photographer Found Free Ebook
    FREEVIVIAN MAIER: A PHOTOGRAPHER FOUND EBOOK John Maloof,Howard Greenberg,Marvin Heiferman,Laura Lippman | 288 pages | 20 Nov 2014 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062305534 | English | New York, United States About Vivian Maier Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She worked for about 40 years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, while pursuing photography. She took more than , photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide. During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her. This month, Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found will be published— the largest collection of her work to date. On October 30, a new exhibit of her photographs will open at the Howard Greenberg. John Maloof, who bought most of it, put up a selection of scans on a website, which immediately went viral; Maier posthumously became a media sensation. Maloof’s VIVIAN MAIER: A Photographer Found. Photography This was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the s - s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Often regarded as the Emily Dickinson of photography – since united by the same reticence in life and posthumous popularity as the American poetess – Vivian Maier was a street photographer before this term was even coined and has today secured her place in photography’s pantheon. Information about the discovery of Vivian Maier's photographs at an auction in Chicago and how research about her was conducted.
    [Show full text]
  • VIVIAN MAIER: out of the SHADOWS Kill Date – March 23
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VIVIAN MAIER: OUT OF THE SHADOWS Kill Date – March 23 Exhibition Title: Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows Exhibition Dates: February 1 - March 23, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, February 15, 6-8PM for immediate release Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday 11 am – 10 pm, Friday – Sunday 12 pm – 8 pm VIVIAN MAIER: Location: Photo Center NW, 900 12th Avenue, Seattle, 98122 OUT OF THE SHADOWS More info & images: Erin Spencer, [email protected], 206.720.7222 Lecture & Book Signing: Richard Cahan, co-author of Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows February 8, 6:30 pm @ Photo Center NW CONTACt RAFAEL SOLDI The Photo Center NW is proud to present Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows, an Marketing Director exhibition of photographs by Vivian Maier (1926-2009) from the Jeffrey Goldstein collection. This exhibition of posthumous silver gelatin prints puts Maier’s work in Phone the context of her life during her highly creative period from the 1950s through the 206.720.7222 x20 1970s. This is the first time Maier’s impressive body of work and unique story will e-mail be shared in Seattle. [email protected] online Maier’s work was discovered in Chicago in 2007 when boxes of abandoned prints, www.pcnw.org negatives and undeveloped film were sold at auction. Born in New York, Maier spent much of her youth in France. Starting in the late 1940s, she shot an average of a roll of film a day. She moved to Chicago in the mid-1950s, and spent the next 40 years Photo Center northwest working as a nanny to support her passion for photography.
    [Show full text]
  • F14 US Catalogue.Pdf
    HARPERAUDIO You Are Not Special CD ...And Other Encouragements Jr. McCullough, David Summary A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.’s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life Children today, says David McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and HarperAudio 9780062338280 son and namesake of the famous historian—are being encouraged to sacrifice On Sale Date: 4/22/14 passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success. The intense pressure $43.50 Can. to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self­ CD­Audio confidence from those failures. Carton Qty: 20 Announced 1st Print: 5K In You Are (Not) Special, McCullough elaborates on his now­famous speech exploring Family & Relationships / how, for what purpose, and for whose sake, we’re raising our kids. With wry, Parenting affectionate humor, McCullough takes on hovering parents, ineffectual schools, FAM034000 professional college prep, electronic distractions, club sports, and generally the 6.340 oz Wt 180g Wt manifestations, and the applications and consequences of privilege. By acknowledging that the world is indifferent to them, McCullough takes pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do something useful with their advantages. Author Bio David McCullough started teaching English in 1986. He has appeared on and/or done interviews for the following outlets: Fox 25 News, CNN, NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, ABC News, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Wellesley Townsman, Montreal radio, Vancouver radio, Madison, WI, radio, Time Magazine and Epoca (Brazilian magazine).
    [Show full text]
  • Finding Vivian Maier Discussion Guide
    www.influencefilmclub.com Finding Vivian Maier Discussion Guide Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel Year: 2014 Time: 83 min You might know this director from: FINDING VIVIAN MAIER is the first feature-length film from these directors. FILM SUMMARY Mysterious, eccentric, caring, cruel, paranoid, reclusive, loner, pack rat, spinster. Viv, Vivian, Miss Maier, Mrs. Mayers. The elusive Vivian Maier went by many names. She was many things to many people. Attempting to comprehend who this prolific street photographer really was, FINDING VIVIAN MAIER reaches out to the many lives Vivian touched. Where did she come from and what drove her to create so much, and yet reveal so little? After discovering Vivian’s work at a Chicago auction house, historian and director John Maloof became determined to uncover the tale of this woman who touched so many lives but disclosed so little of her own. Through interviews with her employers and an extensive treasure hunt which took him from a tiny village in the French Alps to Southampton, New York and all across the greater Chicago area, Maloof pieces together the puzzle of Vivian’s creative, solitary life. As he develops her unexposed negatives and exhibits her art, the extent of Vivian’s previously unknown life unfolds in full color. A tale of opposites, FINDING VIVIAN MAIER dares to open a Pandora’s box to those who lived with her, while unveiling extensive imagery of the world between the 1950s and early 2000s. Ultimately, the film reveals the true story of one woman’s quest to capture the dark side of existence and to expose the stories of the downtrodden while living under the roof of the well-to-do.
    [Show full text]
  • Vivian Maier the Color Work
    LES DOUCHES LA GALERIE PRESS KIT VIVIAN MAIER THE COLOR WORK OPENING ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 19TH FROM 2 TO 7 PM FROM JANUARY 19TH TO MARCH 30TH, 2019 ©Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; Les Douches la Galerie, Paris Les Douches la Galerie 5, rue Legouvé 75010 Paris lesdoucheslagalerie.com From Wednesday to Saturday, 2-7 pm and by appointment Contact: Françoise Morin 01 78 94 03 00 [email protected] VIVIAN MAIER: THE COLOR WORK One of photography's truths is that the best street photographers learn to be invisible or, at the very least, to convince themselves that they are. Over the years, I've walked the streets with Henri Cartier- Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Tony Ray-Jones, Diane Arbus. Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge, and some of today's younger shooters—Gus Powell, Melanie Einzig, Ben Ingham, and Matt Stuart—and we have all developed our own sleight-of-hand street act. We dodge, feint, twirl, two-step, and eye-shift our way through crowds and rallies, along avenues and backstreets, in parks and on beaches, anywhere that ordinary life draws our attention and desire. It is our invisibility that helps us get away with stealing fire from the gods. In 2009, into the well-established history of street photography flashed the unexpected comet of Vivian Maier. In October of that year I received an email from John Maloof, a young artist I didn't know. He in- troduced himself and told me the story of how he had purchased a cache of negatives, slides, and some prints at a storage-warehouse auction.
    [Show full text]
  • Exhibit Unearths Long-Long Photos by Vivian Maier
    Exhibit unearths long-long photos by Vivian Maier Alex Taylor | Contributor Oct 15, 2014 Alex Taylor | Contributor “A Quiet Pursuit” is an appropriate title for the new exhibit displaying almost 100,000 negatives from an American photographer’s work, which spanned over 50 years and waited silently in storage facilities for years until they were discovered and developed. As a part of the FotoFocus 2014 Biennial event, Vivian Maier’s long-lost photography is being displayed at 1400 Elm Street at Washington Park from Sept. 26 to Nov. 1. In 2007, historian John Maloof brought Maier’s photos out from the files and into galleries. Maier, who died in 2009 at the age of 83, was an American photographer of French and Austrian descent. She lived in New York City then Chicago and worked as a nanny in both cities, but also briefly traveled around the world. Her first camera was a Kodak Brownie box camera that had only one shutter speed and no focus control or aperture dial. Maier eventually graduated to a Rolleiflex camera, in square-medium format, then to a Leica IIIc and various German SLR cameras. For most of her adult life, Maier did not have a dark room or even money to expose her pictures. She would shoot photos that captured herself in reflections, but also captured the people who passed by her. Most of Maier’s’s work is directed to street scenes and portraits of people she never met. Later in her career, Vivian switched to color film and also changed her subject matter.
    [Show full text]
  • PHOTOGRAPHY When Chicago-Based Nanny Vivian Maier Died In
    PHOPHOTOGRAPHYTOGRAPHY SSTREETTREET LIFE ORIGINAL EYE Vivian Maier, left, in an undated self-portrait. Most of the photographs here are from the 1950s. Her astonishing portfolio of street portraits covers all ages and classes. One woman’s extraordinary images of ordinary lives he story of Vivian Maier is so It was only when the book was finished a few calls her, “a really, really awesome person to hang portraiture and street life, she covers children, “I hope she’s OK with what I’m doing,” he says. When Chicago-based nanny Vivian Maier died in 2009, she left behind incredible that the man who months later that he looked at the negatives out with if you were a kid. To be honest, I wish she covers abstraction and she does them all “She had no love life, no family and really had discovered her says: “If you again and slowly realised he was in possession she had been my nanny. She would take kids on with a style that I think digests the history of nobody that was close to her. The only thing that 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. Her work was made this up for Hollywood of something unimaginably precious. He began these wild adventures that only the coolest kids photography.” she had was the freedom of her camera to express it would be like, ‘Oh, come on, printing and posting Maier’s photographs to would think of doing.” She was also, he says, extraordinarily prescient: herself and I think the reason she kept it secret is that’s too hard to believe.’ She a blog (vivianmaier.blogspot.com), which he They had no idea, though, that their nanny “There’s work that reminds me of Diane Arbus, because it’s all she had.” discovered by chance by an estate agent who set about putting her pictures is,” he adds, “the most riveting describes as “a snowball that just started rolling spent her days off taking some of the most for example, but they were done before Diane He adds: “I wish I could go back in time to person I have ever encountered.” and has just been building ever since.
    [Show full text]
  • A Necessary Condition for Photographic Art
    VALUE PERSPECTIVE: A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Humanities By MICHELLE MARIE BURDINE B.A., Antioch McGregor, 2005 A.A.S., Ohio Institute of Photography, 1995 2013 Wright State University WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL April 25, 2013 I HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY Michelle Marie Burdine ENTITLED Value Perspective: A Necessary Condition for Photographic Art BE ACCEPTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Master of Humanities. ________________________________ Donovan Miyasaki, Ph.D. Thesis Director ________________________________ Ava Chamberlain, Ph.D. Director, Masters of Humanities Program Committee on Final Examination ___________________________________ Donovan Miyasaki, Ph.D. ___________________________________ Karla T. Huebner, Ph.D. ___________________________________ Tracy Longley-Cook, MFA ___________________________________ R. William Ayres, Ph.D. Interim Dean, Graduate School ABSTRACT Burdine, Michelle Marie. M.H. Master of Humanities Program, Wright State University, 2013. Value Perspective: A Necessary Condition for Photographic Art. The conjoined relationship photography has with technology complicates conversations about photography as art because this relationship allows photography to be used interchangeably for practical, social, and commercial purposes, as well as for art. A theory of art for photography is needed in order to accurately separate photographic
    [Show full text]
  • Fall 2020 Nonfiction Rights Guide
    Fall 2020 Nonfiction Rights Guide 19 West 21st St. Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 / Telephone: (212) 765-6900 / E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES TONIC HEAD OF THE MOSSAD STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU THE SEEKERS TANAQUIL BLIND AMBITION PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE NOTHING PERSONAL PROOF OF LIFE MINDFULNESS & SELF-HELP THE SPARE ROOM BRAT HEART BREATH MIND HOUSE OF STICKS HI, JUST A QUICK QUESTION VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED BE WATER, MY FRIEND CRYING IN THE BATHROOM MY EVERYTHING I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GROWING YOUNG HOW TO SAY BABYLON THE SECRETS OF SILENCE REBEL TO AMERICA TRUE AGE HORSE GIRLS INTIMACIES KIKI MAN RAY OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN THE BIG HURT THE POWER OF THE DOWNSTATE AUGUST WILSON THE SUM OF TRIFLES NARRATIVE NONFICTION YOU HAD ME AT PET NAT MURDER BOOK THE DOCTOR WHO FOOLED THE WOLRD THE RECKONING THE MISSION GUCCI TO GOATS THE POWER OF STRANGERS RHAPSODY CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSTLE SWOLE CHASING THE THRILL ONBOARDING CURE-ALL CONQUERING ALEXANDER IN THIS PLACE TOGETHER UNTITLED TOM SELLECK MEMOIR SQUIRREL HILL THE GLASS OF FASHION NOSTALGIA DOT DOT DOT PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST CHANGE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION SPOKEN WORD MUHAMMED THE PROPHET UNFORGETTABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONT. NARRATIVE NONFICTION, CONT. SCIENCE, BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS TALKING FUNNY 2030 DEMOCRACY’S DATA BREAK IT UP THE KINGDOM OF PREP BATTLE TESTED GOOD COP GOOD COMPANY OSCAR WARS EDITING HUMANITY EDITING AROUND THE CORNER TO AROUND THE WORLD WE DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE BETTING
    [Show full text]
  • Vivian Maier
    3-5 Swallow Street, London, W1B 4DE / [email protected] Vivian Maier 04 August - 05 September 2015 Vivian Maier was a professional nanny who, unbe- knownst to those that knew her, used her spare time to scour the streets of Chicago and New York, using her trusty Rolleiflex, to shoot up to a whole roll of film each day. Unknown in her life- time, she left an outstanding body of work com- posed of more than 100,000 negatives and unde- veloped roll films. Self-Portrait, Chicago Area, 1960 Her recent ascent from recluse to revered artist is phenomenal, and has become one of the most remarkable stories in the history of photography. Her photographs show her exceptional eye for detail and flair for composition. They are witty and intelligent, and charged with a strong sense of empathy. She took photographs of the downtrodden as well as the well-heeled, of youth and of age. Maier was endlessly inspired by the lives around her. If it had not been for a chance discovery at a Chicago auction in 2007, the world would still be una- ware of her vast oeuvre and undeniable talent. Maier held the accumulation of her passion for pho- tography in storage lockers, as she had no permanent home of her own. Undeveloped film, negatives and prints from her storage locker were auctioned off when Maier fell on hard times later in her life. John Maloof, an amateur historian, bid blind on a box packed with negatives taken from Maier’s lock- er. What he found inside would change his life, and the history of photography, forever.
    [Show full text]
  • VIVIAN MAIER Self-Portraits
    LES DOUCHES LA GALERIE PRESS KIT VIVIAN MAIER Self-Portraits UNTIL JANUARY 30TH, 2021 © Estate of Vivian Maier / Courtesy Maloof Collection; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York & Les Douches la Galerie, Paris Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a new selection of self-portraits by Vivian Maier. Produced between 1953 and the 1970s, they once again demonstrate her eye for reflections, her great sense of composition and, more generally, the richness of her work. Les Douches la Galerie 5, rue Legouvé 75010 Paris | lesdoucheslagalerie.com Closed until further notice Self-Portrait: My Impressions of Vivian Maier BY ELIZABETH AVEDON “I have often wondered about the significance of capturing your own likeness, the experience of being represented on both sides of the frame. I have to believe it is more than just vanity or narcissism. One would naively imagine a self-portrait informs us about the person. We observe the figure illustrated, and in the gaze back we believe we can determine something about their life, their work, their day. Searching for expression we discern clothes, choices, surroundings – all in an effort to resolve the mystery of self. I am not sure if we can read the « self » in Vivian Maier’s self-portraiture or even chart the progression of her life through their images. We look at her self-portraits for revelations, but she does not really give us much. She is alone in her reflections. Her viewpoint difficult to judge. No hint of emotion or reaction. Never a portrait with a partner. She is seldom with a friend, occasionally with a child.
    [Show full text]