Vivian? Meyer: She used to be a nanny, but her price doubled because of photography.

She was just an unremarkable nanny with a stubborn and dull appearance. She was unmarried, unknown and silent all her life.

But after her death, photography made her famous all over the world.

She is Vivian Maier, an outsider who has stayed in one family after another, an era recorder who held a double-reflex camera at strangers on the streets of new york and Chicago, and a street photographer before the concept of street photography was formally formed.

she leads a double life.

In front of people, she is a nanny who keeps her place and gets along well with the children.

After her death, she kept exploring in the photography world, observing and capturing the lives of those marginalized groups with her eyes.

photography is the art of observation and a kind of gaze.

She stares at the world, walks into the picture, locks the people and scenes that attract her, quickly presses the shutter, and then leaves quietly.

She photographed a lady in gorgeous clothes, a tramp on the street, herself in various mirror images, stacks of newspapers, and discarded items in the trash can ...

Vivian kept her eyes on the world, but never let the world turn to stare at her until John Maloof, the director of Looking for vivian maier, discovered the secrets hidden in those heavy suitcases.

Chen Danqing once said that even photographers who are extremely reclusive and have obscure topics are shouting at the world alone.

this is the case in vivian maier.

After returning to new york in 1951, she started to work as a nanny, and bought her favorite Rolleiflex double-reflex camera the following year.

In p>1956, she moved into a family in Chicago as a nanny. In this family, she was lucky enough to have a private bathroom that could be used as a darkroom. But after that, it was difficult for her to have such an opportunity again, so countless films were piled up in the big suitcase she carried with her.

in the 197s, Vivian began to take color photography, mainly using Leica IIIc camera, some German SLR cameras and Kodak Ektachrome 35mm film.

ten years later, as she grew older, she found it difficult to find a job and fell into poverty. She could no longer afford the film.

Her only way of expressing herself externally-photography-ended here.

when John Maloof searched her name online, the only information he found was her obituary.

to the world, she seems to have never existed.

But she did exist. She paid attention to current events and stared at the world. Her photographs are the best proof of her existence.

And for everyone who is keen on photography, every moment that the lens stays should belong to him, and it should also be a proof of his existence.

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