Bir dadı ve bir sokak fotoğrafçısı olan Vivian Maier (1926–2009), sokak fotoğrafçılığı ve oto portreleri dahil olmak üzere yaklaşık 150 bin fotoğraflık bir hazineyi saklıyordu. Bu hazine, 2007’de bir emlak satışında tesadüfen ortaya çıkana kadar dünyadan gizlendi. 2010’dan beri Maier’ın fotoğrafları dünya çapında galeri ve müzelerde bolca sergilendi ve Akademi Ödülü’ne aday gösterilen 2013 belgeseli Finding Vivian Maier’e konu oldu.
Çoğunlukla Chicago ve New York merkezli fotoğraflarının keşfinden bu yana on yıl geçmesine ve epeyce şöhret olmasına rağmen, renkli fotoğrafları, geliştirme ve iyileştirmeyle ilgili teknik zorluklar nedeniyle pek ortaya çıkmadı.
Bu ay, tam renkli fotoğraflarla ilgili en büyük monograf Harper Collins tarafından yayınlandı ve bu monograf Maier’in hayatının son 30 yılına ait yaklaşık 40 bin Ektachrome renkli filmle çekilen görüntüyü içeriyor.
Kapak fotoğrafı: New York City, 1959. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

© Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Self-portrait, Chicago, February 1976. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1958. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

© Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1960. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Chicago, 1962. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

© Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1975. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Chicagoland, 1975. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Chicago,1979. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1975. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Vivian Maier: The Color Work, by Colin Westerbeck. Copyright © 2018. Images reproduced here with permission from Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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