2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptations
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Saturday, October 19 - 9:00AM to 10:00AM
Kingsley Ballroom - South
Rarely has a photographer received more posthumous attention than Vivian Maier. Since John Maloof's initial find of her photographs in 2007 at a thrift auction in Chicago, the world has come to see the highlights of a vast photographic archive created by a masterful artist. Her guarded lifestyle and obsession with imagemaking - shooting on an almost daily basis - led to an image collection that is a time capsule of mid to late 20th Century life on the streets of Chicago and New York.Maier's inception hinged on photo sharing via the internet. Her emergence with a 2010 exhibition organized by Maloof at the Chicago Cultural Center led to an overnight interest in her life and work. Following shows at the Steven Kasher and Howard Greenberg galleries in 2011, she has been popularized as an important 20th Century street photographer. With Maloof's collection and the smaller Jeffrey Goldstein collection released in book format and now on tour and the upcoming "Finding Vivian Maier" documentary film scheduled for June 2013 release, her work has achieved a rare and unexpected artistic prominence. Upcoming international exhibition venues in 2013-2014 include Toronto, France, Switzerland, Beijing and Seoul. But the discovery of Vivian Maier's vast archive has left scholars with the dilemma of assessing her importance as a 20th century artist. A concurrent issue concerns the printing from the archive, the editioning and sale of prints and, ultimately, the valuation in the collector marketplace. This lecture explores how new democratizing technologies like the internet led Vivian Maier's private work to international prominence. It focuses on her singular vision as an artist with a finely honed visual acuity and positions her relevance among the finest photographers of the 20th Century.
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