![]() ![]() ![]() But let’s look at the evidence – the work itself. This might come as a surprise to the legions of fans on Facebook (and the thousands of ‘Likes’ for each image), those who think that she is the best thing since sliced bread. ![]() Maier is a very good photographer but she will never be a great photographer. ![]() To be unequivocal about it, they are good – but, in most cases, they are not “great”. The latest “must have” for any self respecting photography collection, be it private or public. Unknown in her lifetime (nanny as secretive photographer), her negatives discovered at an auction after her death – some developed, all scanned, in some cases cropped, the medium format images then printed. Maier states that these things happened with this subject matter but with Arbus, for example, she meets something extra/ordinary and alien – and goes beyond, beyond, beyond.” If there is an idea out there in the ether she grabs onto it in a slightly derivative way. She sees something well enough, whereas Lee Friedlander expects something. “Maier doesn’t have a partner to dance with. © Vivian Maier / Maloof Collection, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York Exhibition dates: 9th November 2013 – 1st June 2014 ![]()
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