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Vivian Maier self portrait probably taken in Chicago Illinois 1955 #1 Wood Print
by David Lee Guss
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Vivian Maier self portrait probably taken in Chicago Illinois 1955 #1 wood print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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Vivian Dorothea Maier (1926-2009) was a street photographer who snapped away solely for herself from the 1950's to the 1990's. Many of her pictures... more
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Artist's Description
Vivian Dorothea Maier (1926-2009) was a street photographer who snapped away solely for herself from the 1950's to the 1990's. Many of her pictures are self portraits. This is one of her quirkiest and best.
"She recorded her life primarily thought the images she took while she traveled the world on her own and with the families that hired her as a nanny. Her body of work includes hundreds of thousands of photographs from Chicago and New York City to France, Bangkok, and Beijing. Vivian has become one of America/s newly recognized and celebrated street photographers, capturing pieces of life and Americana that are unparalleled."
The intensely private Maier would have detested all the hoopla over her images, which she shared with nobody but are now heavily promoted as investments.
"Her work was only discovered in 2007 when a storage locker of hers was auctioned off due to delinquent payments. These lockers housed the amassed treasury of photos Vivian had take...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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Kathy M Krause
Congratulations on your sale David!
Masha Batkova
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Chrisann Ellis
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RicardMN Photography
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Ramon Martinez
Congratulations on your recent sale!
Ann Sokolovich
Congratulations
Dean Wittle
Congratulations on today's sale!
Irina Sztukowski
Congratulation on a productive Sale!
Az Jackson
Sending congratulations on your recent sale.
David Lee Guss
One of my favorite Virginia pictures. DLG
Julia Hiebaum
Beautiful b&w by Mrs. Maier, Congrats on your sale!