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The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of
Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class
photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen
before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.
Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously
discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of
the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before
posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried
her past that even the families she lived with knew little about
her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had
parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she
took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in
this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to
Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to
reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on
meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals
the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history
of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse,
violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left
with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships,
she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret
portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and
humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle
in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of
others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women,
African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind
the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and
inspired woman-a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work
would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the
century.
The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of
Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class
photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen
before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.
Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously
discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of
the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before
posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried
her past that even the families she lived with knew little about
her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had
parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she
took photographs and why she didn’t share them with others. Now,
in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to
Vivian’s personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to
reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on
meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier
Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family
with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection,
substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her
own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and
form relationships, she expressed herself through photography,
creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion,
authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked
down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in
life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of
workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one
knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent,
empathetic, and inspired woman—a woman so creatively gifted that
her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic
discoveries of the century.
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Vivian Maier (Hardcover)
Anne Morin, Christa Blumlinger, Ann Marks
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A full-career retrospective on the work of Vivian Maier, bringing
together a selection of key works from throughout her life and
career. When Vivian Maier's archive was discovered in Chicago in
2007, the photography community gained an immense and singular
talent. Maier lived in relative obscurity until her death in 2009,
but is now the subject of films and books, and recognized as one of
the great American photographers of the 20th century. Born in New
York in 1926, she worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for
much of her adult life. It was during her years as a nanny that she
took many of the photographs that have made her posthumously
famous. Maier's incredible body of work consists of more than
150,000 photographic images, Super 8 and 16 mm films, various
recordings and a multitude of undeveloped films. Working primarily
as a street photographer, Maier's work has been compared with such
luminaries as Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Joel
Meyerowitz. Drawing on previously unpublished archives and recent
scientific analyses, this retrospective sheds new light on Maier's
work. With texts by Anne Morin and Christa Blumlinger, this
thorough look at Maier's entire archive is organized thematically
in sections that cover self-portraits, the street, portraits,
gestures, cinematography, children, colour work and forms. A
valuable addition to the continuing assessment of Maier's work,
this book is a one-volume compendium of her most enduring images.
As part of the NSF's EXPRES project, the authors investigated ways
to interchange multi-media documents among diverse systems. Their
investigations led to an analysis and implementation of multi-media
document format translation in general, and of the ODA standard in
particular. ODA, Office Document Architecture, is a new ISO and
CCITT international standard for representing multi- media
documents. The results of their investigations are presented in
this book. The book contains overview information about multi-media
document architecture and formats, an introduction to ODA, detailed
technical specifications on how to use ODA for multi-media document
format translation, and the authors' experiences in implementing
and using ODA. The book also contains a complete user manual for
the authors' publically available ODA software: tool kits for
manipulating ODA and raster formats, tools for examining ODA
documents and sample translators between ODA and several other
multi-media formats. This book provides comprehensive information
about ODA for a large audience. Planners can get basic information
about using ODA for interoperation of multi-media systems.
Researchers receive detailed discussions about the advantages and
problems of using ODA for document representation, format
translation and archival storage. System designers can use the
technical descriptions of translators and tools in specifying their
own. System builders can easily obtain the software as a basis for
prototyping and investigating their own ODA implementations.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
A practical guide on how to reduce negativity and embrace
happiness. From meth addicts to multi-millionaires, the book offers
powerful experiences of individuals who have faced dramatic
challenges, but did not lose hope. Using these compelling
biographies, as well as practical advice and simple exercises, the
reader is guided on an internal journey toward adopting a more
joyful way to live.
This book is a collection of poems which I have been inspired to
write since I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Each poem is
of inspirational content. Many people among my Prayer Group have
been touched deeply by these words. They have been called
"beautiful' And they have been called "moving," life-changing and
so on. That is why I feel compelled to have them published as I
have been encouraged to do. I feel that the Lord wants more people
to have access to these poems.
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