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Starting a new thread based on the segue, in Boid's recent post on street photography:
Armando, thank you so much for the introduction to Vivian Maier. I am absolutely blown away by her work - especially in light of her biography. So glad the world did discover her photos as this is one of the keenest eyes I've come across and include some of the most amazing compositions and tonal images that I've seen. I have to agree that they are certainly comparable to the seminal HCB works. Yet we came this close to having them simply bio-degrade.
For those unfamiliar with her work then I'd invite you to have a gander here.
Meanwhile, for those unfamiliar with her background (which was me only days ago) here an easy intro:
[video=youtube_share;HWEDOnBfDUI]
Again Armando, THANK YOU! , this is absolutely fabulous. Inspired now to get out there and shoot. And, hey, I don't care if y'all don't appreciate or understand my work because down the track someone will find a box full of my.....oh who am I kidding!
Very cool to see things from the 1st person perspective. In my opinion though, the photographer was just taking random photos of people walking around the city. There was one or two photos that were somewhat interesting. I'll go check his website to see his other photos.
I recently purchased the book on Vivian Maier by John Maloof, which seems to be always on backorder in Amazon. To my eyes, Vivian Maier's published photos are simply amazing. I find her approach to street photography more appealing and interesting to me. This might be sacrilegous to some, but I find her photos much more compelling than HCB's photos. Although HCB has a much broader and generalistic approach to street photography.
Thanks for sharing the link to the video Boid.
Armando, thank you so much for the introduction to Vivian Maier. I am absolutely blown away by her work - especially in light of her biography. So glad the world did discover her photos as this is one of the keenest eyes I've come across and include some of the most amazing compositions and tonal images that I've seen. I have to agree that they are certainly comparable to the seminal HCB works. Yet we came this close to having them simply bio-degrade.
For those unfamiliar with her work then I'd invite you to have a gander here.
Meanwhile, for those unfamiliar with her background (which was me only days ago) here an easy intro:
[video=youtube_share;HWEDOnBfDUI]
Again Armando, THANK YOU! , this is absolutely fabulous. Inspired now to get out there and shoot. And, hey, I don't care if y'all don't appreciate or understand my work because down the track someone will find a box full of my.....oh who am I kidding!