{"id":1828,"date":"2014-04-08T06:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2015-02-22T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T13:48:55","slug":"finding-vivian-maier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Finding Vivian Maier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another Netflix possibility, if it’s not playing in your local theater, Finding Vivian Maier<\/i>, (trailer<\/a>) is the story of the prolific photo-documentarian whose work came within a hair\u2019s breadth of being lost forever.<\/p>\n

According to a Wired story<\/a><\/i> by Doug Bierend, the dedication of the filmmaker, John Maloof, in bringing her story to the public is a tale of equal parts dogged detection and appreciation of the joys of street photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A five-star rating from Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>: 97% of critics liked it! If it\u2019s as good as the documentary of legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham<\/a>, it will be a gem!<\/p>\n

Many of Maier’s works can be seen on the Artsy website’s Vivian Maier page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 10-22-14:<\/strong> <\/span>Good rundown of the increasingly complex copyright claims and counterclaims swirling around Maier’s work in this Jillian Steinhauer article<\/a>. I wonder how many of the men now vying for rights to her work would have given a nanny with the photography bug the time of day when she was alive?<\/p>\n

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