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Vivian maier most famous photos6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She cataloged the textures and cast-offs of the urban environment: graffiti, fire escapes, signs, garbage, shadows, abandoned newspapers, half-demolished buildings. She captured politicians on the campaign trail (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, LBJ) celebrities at premieres or out in the wild (Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn) laborers and commuters drunks, criminals, and down-and-outs flaneurs and well-coiffed women in furs. Attentive to plaintive or absurd interludes in American life, primarily in New York City and Chicago, Maier made a piecemeal record of the sudden encounters and furtive gestures that turn any street into a guerrilla theater. They sometimes evoke the wanderlust of Robert Frank’s photos, the wry self-deprecation of Lee Friedlander, or the grubbiness of Weegee, but they’re not derivative. The images arrived already imbued with the aura of permanence. ![]()
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