{"id":5905,"date":"2016-01-13T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2016-01-13T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T09:34:05","slug":"vivian-maier-digging-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Maier – Digging Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was about to post this as a comment to my post last week, Vivian Maier Still in Hiding<\/em><\/a>, but then I thought people often miss the comments, so instead this short post.<\/p>\n

On yesterday’s Lens Blog I read a summary the first part of Digging Deeper Into Vivian Maier\u2019s Past<\/em><\/a> with the second instalment promised for today and probably there by now. Its a summary of a longer feature on the Vivian Maier Developed<\/a> blog, where you can also read Part 2 – A Life in Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The researcher, Ann Marks<\/em> “who has no background in photography and started researching Maier only after seeing a documentary about her life \u2014 has learned a great deal about Maier\u2019s family history<\/em>“, some of which had also been uncovered by the sources in my previous piece.<\/p>\n

It amplifies what was already known about her background, and the confirms the speculations about the closeness of her link with a photographer: “From early childhood, Maier spent a significant amount of time with a woman named Jeanne Bertrand, who worked as a professional photographer, as well as other positive female role models<\/em>” and throws a great deal of light on what was a rather disturbed life. And I await today’s second part with interest.<\/p>\n

What it won’t do is tell us any more about her as a photographer, and for that we will have to await detailed studies of the whole of her work – which appears to have been kept together by her tenaciously while she was able to do so – rather than the selected examples that we have so far seen. The second part<\/a> does give some insight into how her photography developed, although unfortunately at least some of the illustrations there appear to be reproduced at the incorrect aspect ratio.<\/p>\n

So far I remain unconvinced that she was anything more than a very capable and talented photographer able to imitate the styles of others. My question if there was a real photographic ‘Vivian Maier’ who had something distinctive to say remains unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was about to post this as a comment to my post last week, Vivian Maier Still in Hiding, but then I thought people often miss the comments, so instead this short post. On yesterday’s Lens Blog I read a summary the first part of Digging Deeper Into Vivian Maier\u2019s Past with the second instalment … Continue reading Vivian Maier – Digging Deeper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}