Fascinating insight into this very eccentric street photographer.Working as a nanny for forty years, Maier was a keen photographer during her spare time. Her photos were unknown and unpublished during her lifetime - she took over 100,000, in fact many of the negatives were undeveloped. Then in 2007 John Maloof came across some of Maier's photos and published them initially on the internet and then due to little interest shown linked his blog to a selection of her photos on Flickr. They went viral leading to critical acclaim and interest in her work.This DVD charts what happened from the initial discovery by Maloof to the present day with many interviews with the families that thought they knew her - we get to see some of her work which is amazing..
Maier used a Rolleiflex up until the late 1970s...this allowed her to really get up close to subjects something I can really appreciate now in my attempts to use my DSLR to capture 'street moments' ! Most images are black and white and look to be casual shots of passersby captured in 'transient' moments.And interestingly she often appears herself in the images.
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Critics have compared her work to that of
Robert Frank , Diane
Arbus,
Helen Levitt, Lisette Model and
Joel Meyerowitz...
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OK....the above images do not really do this intriguing photographer justice...the DVD is definitely worth viewing to get a better tasters of her work..
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