[HN Gopher] What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)
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What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)
Author : oxonia
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-03-03 07:00 UTC (2 days ago)
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| oxonia wrote:
| https://archive.is/MHzBO
| drcongo wrote:
| Thanks for this. For anyone interested there's a fantastic
| documentary about her called Finding Vivian Maier -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Vivian_Maier
| copypasterepeat wrote:
| Agreed. It's also free to stream.
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| I've seen it a couple of times and I keep marveling at the
| sheer strangeness of how it all played out.
| shishy wrote:
| The interesting part of her work is that unlike other
| photographers who not only took photos but had the chance to edit
| them, someone else discovered a bunch of negatives she left
| behind. So others came in later to turn them into what you see.
|
| Anyone who has shot photos (film or digital) knows how much
| effort goes into the editing process.
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| I love her photographs and her story, I just find it fascinating
| to think about this detail, especially when contextualizing her
| with other artists.
| thih9 wrote:
| The fact that she did no editing makes her photos more
| impressive in a lot of ways.
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| At the same time there were other photographers with that
| approach, who left processing to others and/or opted for no
| editing; e.g.:
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| > He believed in composing his photographs in the viewfinder,
| not in the darkroom. He showcased this belief by having nearly
| all his photographs printed only at full-frame and completely
| free of any cropping or other darkroom manipulation. He
| insisted that his prints be left uncropped so as to include a
| few millimeters of the unexposed negative around the image
| area, resulting in a black frame around the developed picture.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
| shishy wrote:
| Yep. It was a little shocking when I learned that about HCB a
| while ago. Totally agree.
| miramba wrote:
| ...and she will never know how famous she became! Here is a
| true artist, one that never seeked to be appreciated as one.
| I'm such a fan.
| NaOH wrote:
| Previous discussion:
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| _What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498483 - March 2019 (17
| comments)
| MrMcCall wrote:
| Great article.
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| The article also mentions another artist who led a remarkable
| life:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger
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| He wrote, over 60 years, a 15,145 page illustrated fantasy novel,
| as a janitor who had had a very, very difficult life. At first, I
| initially couldn't process that figure and automatically read it
| as 15,000 _words_ , but, NO!, it's 15,145 _pages_. Unbelievable.
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| I had never before heard of either of these extraordinary
| artists, but my day is already better for having learned of their
| lives and works.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| The story of Maier is also re-told in a beautiful tome by a
| French artist:
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| Not knowing about who Maier was, I picked this up at a local book
| fair because of the way the compositions in the panels reminded
| me of photography. Only by talking to the author at the fair did
| I realize that she told the story of some of Maier's best known
| photographs, and that's why it looked the way.
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| Anyhow, if you speak french, I wholeheartedly recommend it:
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| https://peinture-fraiche.be/en/book/vivian-maier-a-la-surfac...
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