Banter 66 - Who is Vivian Maier?

Topic: Who is Vivian Maier?

Date: Saturday, November 13th at 5pm-6:30pm

Location:  Sabine's living room, maybe.  Windows open, masks most of the time?  (Zoom for those who feel uncomfortable with that or who are faraway.)

Self-Portrait, 1954

It might be nice to do a mix of discovering the answer to this question via exploration on our own, and additional exploration / sharing together when we meet up.

A good starting spot could be (choose your own adventure):

A. Watch the 2013 film Finding Vivian Maier (on Amazon Prime, YouTube, AppleTV).

B. Look through some of her 100,000 found negatives (in books, website with her name, etc.). 

Reversing A & B could work equally well. 😊

Then perhaps explore her biography (in books, articles, website with her name) on your own.  This could be step C.

Here's that website with her name: http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Then perhaps sort out some info or musings (could be D.) about the make up and impulse and motivational differences in folks like Emily Dickinson or Vivian Maier who hole up their art like a lot of nuts in a tree, yet whose nuts turn out to be more exquisitely hazelnut and pecan than so many other hazelnuts and pecans that are so much more readily marketed, flounced about, and eaten.  Haha, realize that that last sentence is written by someone who still does not know very much at all about the answer to Who is Vivian Maier?

As you explore the above, please send related articles or materials you found to be cool to Sabine. Those will be posted here a week before we meet for others to check out as more prep material to look over.

When we meet, perhaps we can have some images of her photography up while we talk about all of the above.