> > What about her influence now? Many younger street shooters will see > her work because it's popular now and emulate he work.
I'd think it's more likely to lead them to the work of the other Chicago photographers B > -----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. -- 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.
