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Vivian Maier is probably the most famous street photographer who saw no publicity during her lifetime. Working as a nanny for about forty years, Maier is said to have taken more than 150,000 photographs, mostly in Chicago and New York. But it was only after her death in 2009 that her...
Earlier this week, the Daily Show saw Jon Stewart talking with actor Jeff Garlin, who stars in the sitcom "the Goldbergs". But surprisingly, Garlin came on with a rather photocentric note, busting out a Leica M Monochrom, and mentioning his work on a documentary on Vivian Maier.
In usual Daily Show style, the interview...
It's seems almost as long of a road for the documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" to get its world premiere as it's been for its mysterious street photographer subject to find world recognition. The movie, which began as Kickstarter project in 2010, traces the life of Maier, a virtually unknown photographer whose stirring,...
Here's another movie I'm looking forward to checking out. Called "Everybody Street," it's a documentary about some of the most famous names in street photography including Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Mary Ellen Mark and many others.
The film, directed by Cheryl Dunn,...
We've written about the dueling documentaries on street photographer Vivian Meir and her lost images previously and now here's your chance to watch one of these movies via YouTube.
The BBC documentary, titled "Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?," originally aired on BBC One's "imagine…" series last week and is...
There's something universally appealing about an undiscovered artist finally getting their place in the sun. In the case of Vivian Maier, a virtually unknown street photographer whose stirring, black-and-white work was discovered in a storage locker only a few years before her death in 2009, her story has inspired not...
Now here's something we were excited to see: the official trailer for an intriguing new documentary about the lost photos of street photographer Vivian Maier. Titled "Finding Vivian Maier," the movie follows the 2007 discovery of the photos by Chicago historian John Maloof, who helped bring worldwide attention to Maier's...