What about her influence now? Many younger street shooters will see her work because it's popular now and emulate he work. -----Original Message----- From: "Bob W" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:01:24 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'<[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: RE: V. Maier exhibition in London
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Christine Aguila > To all our British PDMLers: Check this out: Vivian Maier is by you > guys! > > http://londonstreetphotographyfestival.org/diary/vivian-maier-a-life- > uncovered > > P.S. How about a report for the list from one of you guys!?! Chris couldn't make it yesterday, so I went to the exhibition today because I had something else to do in that area. The exhibition space is really good. It's some sort of Victorian railway building that's been converted as part of the enormous regeneration taking place around Kings Cross St. Pancras. There is an architect's model of the whole site on the ground floor of the exhibition building. The exhibition itself is quite small and I thought the pictures were rather variable, from superb to meh. Many of them are top class, whatever the back story, but I made an effort to evaluate them without the back story influencing me, trying to think "If I saw this without knowing who took it, what would be my reaction?". Meh, in a few cases. The good ones, however, are great and I look forward to seeing many more as the backlog is whittled away. It's a great shame though that Maier was not in contact with other street photographers of the time. If her pictures had been known in the 1950s she would stand alongside some of the top names from that school, but now she can only be a footnote and a curiosity. The influence of that school of photography has already been made, and I don't think she will go on to influence anyone significant, expect perhaps to learn more about the Chicago influence on street photography. The exhibition is part of London Street Photography week. After it I went to London's former "Little Italy", which is centred round the church of San Pietro. Today is when they have their annual procession, which I'd never heard of until a few weeks ago, so I went along to photograph it. Lots of street photographers had obviously had the same idea because I saw many of the same faces I'd seen earlier at the Maier show. I'll post some photos of the procession later. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
