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Permalink Reply by knowbody on January 5, 2011 at 2:32am

what a great discovery! and word about her is only trickling out now. thanks for sharing. i'll be spending some time with those phtographs now that they'll be on display.

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Permalink Reply by igz on January 5, 2011 at 3:57am

thanks for sharing this great find

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 9, 2011 at 3:48pm

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 ;-)  ).  

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on January 9, 2011 at 3:51pm

Chicago Tonight did a feature on her a few weeks ago.  I'm planning to see the exhibit this week and have recommended it to many people.

 

The guy who discovered her work has been putting it up on a blog, so anyone who hasn't yet seen the show can get a preview.  He's also working on a documentary and a book about her life and work.

H3N3 said:

I made it to the exhibit today.   Not a huge number of prints, about two rooms, but absolutely worth the trip (and the admission price ;-)  ).  We probably spent about 20 minutes in the exhibit, taking our time.

Several cases of personal effects were very cool to see-- random handwritten notes, the cameras, a few of the hats that cast the distinctive shadows in many of her images.   My favorite was a note with instructions written by the clerk to the film processing service that said, among other instructions, something to the effect of "do good job, customer is very particular."

 

Enter from the Washington side of the Cultural Center and go to your right on the main level.

Open 'til 7 Monday through Thursday and 6 on Fri/Sat/Sun, I think.

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Permalink Reply by knowbody on January 10, 2011 at 4:47am

the same note caught my eye howard... especially the preceding "on glossy paper, but not glossy" part.
totally enjoyed the exhibit, the expressions on the children's faces evoked long forgotten moments in our youth.

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Permalink Reply by milesperhour on January 10, 2011 at 4:47am

Yeah, I was a little disappointed with the limited number of prints.  Like you mentioned, a lot of them were also on the blog.  All in all though, I enjoyed looking at her photography, especially the ones of children.  She had a knack for catching kids at their finest.

H3N3 said:

I made it to the exhibit today.   Not a huge number of prints, about two rooms, but absolutely worth the trip (and the admission price ;-)  ).  We probably spent about 20 minutes in the exhibit, taking our time.

Several cases of personal effects were very cool to see-- random handwritten notes, the cameras, a few of the hats that cast the distinctive shadows in many of her images.   My favorite was a note with instructions written by the clerk to the film processing service that said, among other instructions, something to the effect of "do good job, customer is very particular."

 

Enter from the Washington side of the Cultural Center and go to your right on the main level.

Open 'til 7 Monday through Thursday and 6 on Fri/Sat/Sun, I think.

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Permalink Reply by Holly on January 10, 2011 at 5:19am

Cannot wait to do this! This is one of the more interesting things that's gone viral on the internet in quite awhile. And, lucky us! We can go see the show locally! 

 

Even if the show is sparse compared to the various different prints made, I don't care.  It's nice to be left wanting more. And, that's where the blog (and other institutions) could come in later. I imagine that John Maloof hasn't even scratched the surface considering the amount of negatives that were found.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on January 10, 2011 at 12:19pm

It's my understanding that he's barely made a dent in the stash of negatives, so I think we'll see a lot more of her work in the future.

Holly said:

Cannot wait to do this! This is one of the more interesting things that's gone viral on the internet in quite awhile. And, lucky us! We can go see the show locally! 

 

Even if the show is sparse compared to the various different prints made, I don't care.  It's nice to be left wanting more. And, that's where the blog (and other institutions) could come in later. I imagine that John Maloof hasn't even scratched the surface considering the amount of negatives that were found.

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Permalink Reply by Michele on January 11, 2011 at 7:36am

Just clicked the invisible "like" button.

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Permalink Reply by Vilda on February 16, 2013 at 7:59am

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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 ;-)  ).  

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Permalink Reply by Joe Guzzardo on February 16, 2013 at 8:57am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Guzzardo on February 16, 2013 at 9:00am

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.

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