Friday, December 05, 2014
Missing person
Some people are able to blend in so much that they disappear.
Such is the case of a now famous photographer Vivian Maier. In her life she was inconspicuous to a fault. Now, posthumously, her work is receiving a lot of attention, including today's film
We see a lot of her work, a little bit of her and a lot of other photographers and museum types who appreciate her work.
There is even a guy we know from Provincetown, the photographer, Joel Meyerwitz.
I think it is difficult to make a good film about a still photographer no less a dead one. But John Maloof has done so. It is filled with life, interesting people and not just talking heads. We do, of course, see a lot of Maier's work.
It is amazing that the photos seem as though they are a movie. A film of a person. Biography in one shot.
I enjoyed this film a lot and learned a great deal about photography, some contemporary photographers and of course, Ms. Maier. Also something about the young man who resurrected her, John Maloof.
