Thanks for posting, Darren. This movie is based on the Jeffery Goldstien collection--the web page is linked to the Vimeo page.
Goldstein states the following about the maker collection he acquired: "Later spring 2010, I was notified that this mysterious buyer had reappeared. A meeting was arranged, and I acquired his portion of the Vivian Maier collection. The Jeffrey Goldstein collection (Vivian Maier Prints Inc.) has grown to include 15,000 negatives, 1,000 prints, 30 homemade movies, and numerous slides. They document Vivian’s European years prior to her early 1950s stay in New York continuing through her Chicago years from 1955 into the early 1970s." Now the collection we first learned of was the John Maloof's collection, which is what I saw at the Maier Exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and reported on via Miserere's blog Enticing the Light. I'm intrigued that there is now another collection. I did a quick look at Goldstein's site, and Maloof's name is not listed anywhere. What's the status of Maloof's work? Who is this mysterious buyer that reappeared? I haven't been keeping up with the story, so it's possible these questions have answers somewhere. There are also a couple of statements made in the movie I find interesting. In the narration, the actress voiceover states Maier never showed her photos when she was alive, then qualifies this and says she showed a few photos to the children and that they asked for copies, which Maier said they could have if they bought them. This doesn't quite jive with a handwritten note on an envelope I saw at the Chicago Exhibition, which stated something like--do a good job, customer very fussy. I can't remember the quote exactly, though I did quote it accurately in the piece I wrote, I'm just to lazy to look for it right now, but I have the gist right here. Now, I don't know of the authenticity of that note--that is, did she actually write it? Was it confirmed that it was her handwriting? I hope the collection has a good manuscript scholar who can give sound investigation to this aspect of the materials Maier left behind. The movie also states that there are audio tapes among the Maier collection, yet doesn't say much about what was on those tapes. Was Maier taping herself? Was she taping someone else? Nor is it clear the degree to which the narration is or isn't informed by the audio tapes. Well, it continues to be an interesting story. Thanks for posting, Darren. Cheers, Christine On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > I don't think this has been linked here before. > > I hope you enjoy it as much as i did: > http://vimeo.com/45967951 > > -- > "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's > own, is to get over the confusion > by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is > the other way around." > > -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" > > -- > 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.
