Eye to eye
Subtitle: photographs by Vivian Maier
By: [written and edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams]
Contributors: Cahan, Richard, compiler, writer of added text; Williams, Michael (Michael F.), compiler, writer of added text
Publisher: Cityfiles Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago, IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780991541805
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Portraits; Street photography; Street life; Pictorial works
Description: Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story--thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction--has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully through the photographs she took only for herself. This new collection offers readers a chance to follow Maier as she travels the world, including images of France, Italy, Malaysia, Yemen, Puerto Rico, and America. These eye-to-eye portraits, published for the first time, are the single constant in her lifetime of photographic work. Maier is often cast as a quirky, anti-social character, moving on the outskirts of real connection. But these photographs show something more. Printed with the latest technology, the book utilizes a modified 4-color process that produces images parallel to traditional silver gelatin prints. Combined with 15u stochastic screening, Maier's 96 photographs in this volume are spectacularly sharp, full-range black and white reproductions.