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Just stumbled across this on another forum:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEDOnBfDUI

 

Way, way cool. Had not heard of her.

 

I know it's not how these things usually work, but I wish they would process all 100k and put every single picture up at a massive exhibit, without any attempt to determine which ones "make the cut."  Spending a day there would be about as close to time travel as current technology allows.

 

On display at the Chicago Cultural Center Jan 8 to April 3:

http://www.google.com/search?q=vivian+maier+chicago+cultural+center

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Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

Gabe, did Howard leave his monitor on again??? Howard, is that you? Gabe, knock it off!

H3N3 said:

 Not a huge number of prints, about two rooms, but absolutely worth the trip (and the admission price ;-)  ).  

Yeah, I first heard about Vivian Maier a couple years ago on that WTTW show mentioned earlier. She is a true local treasure. She was able to capture the extraordinary aspects of life that we typically miss in the mundane world around us. She forced me to rethink the way I looked at things. Now if that isn't art, then I don't know what is. Don't miss the Cultural Center exhibit.

Mmmmm, tacos. I hate to say it, but you're probably right.

Clint H said:

Here's a thought. I've watched the emergence of Vivian Maier with as much enthusiasm as a everybody else, and I agree. Her photos are astounding. What I wonder is whether in 50 years, somebody will come across today's Vivian Maier. My feeling is that it's far less likely that our own generation will produce such a figure. It isn't that I think there aren't amateur, unknown photographers out there with as much or more talent as Maier. I think there are probably tens of thousands of them. But I think they exist in a much more vast pool of unknown amateur photographers, and that their images will be buried in pixels beneath billions of Instagramed photos of tacos. We'll not see the likes of this again.

No idea what Kevin is on about here ;-) ;-) ;-)

Gabe said:

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Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

Gabe, did Howard leave his monitor on again??? Howard, is that you? Gabe, knock it off!

H3N3 said:

 Not a huge number of prints, about two rooms, but absolutely worth the trip (and the admission price ;-)  ).  

A little update courtesy of Gaper's Block ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

Getting complicated with the legal stuff (as they say, money can ruin anything...)

http://gapersblock.com/ac/2013/08/13/the-curious-case-of-vivian-mai...

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