Wow...she really got around. It is not by accident that you find yourself 10 feet, from Frank Sinatra, as he exits a movie theater.....a Premiere to one of his own starring films.
Wow...she really got around. It is not by accident that you find yourself 10 feet, from Frank Sinatra, as he exits a movie theater.....a Premiere to one of his own starring films.True! Two links with a few of Vivian's vintage prints :
http://gapersblock.com/ac/2012/06/29/opening-vivian-maier-vintage-prints/
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-library-receives-gift-vintage-vivian-maier-prints
Vivian was a normal photographer who had a great eye. I am glad to have had her work grace my hands.
If cook county lawyers had its ways , we would be seeing coffee mugs and Hats for sale.
IMHO..... This will probably Not be the case, but i completely sympathize with your sentiment.Vivian Maier may well be one of the last famous photographers. Now that everybody can make high-quality, no-cost still or moving pictures of everything all the time, which anyone on the internet might view at any time, the significance of any one particular frame or whomever happened to produce it is greatly diminished. Henceforth, the focus will be on what's in front of the lens, not behind it, and the image will be constantly changing.
As I said above it is to the creator to prevent this. May it be by destroying his work.
I might be wrong but didn’t A.A destroyed some of his early work?
Think his argument got thrown out of court and he sold most of his stuff to a Canadian collector, who has since sold to a European consortium of collectors. Copy right laws are pretty tight, even Maloof secret deal with the state of Illinois may come unstuck if an American heir turns up (stranger things have happened). If the Canadians are willing to arrest the head of a phone company of a world super power for steeling intellectual property, theres no safety there either. Dont think we will be seeing any Miss Maier mugs and tea towels any time soon.Here's an interview with Jeffrey Goldstein from 2015 (Jeffrey G. once owned the second largest collection of Vivian Maier negatives) -
we heard about him in post #71 - worth reading!
https://petapixel.com/2015/05/17/interview-jeffrey-goldstein-on-why-hes-suing-vivian-maiers-estate/
Thats the amount he mentions in the BBC interview, and I would think everyone would be understating amounts in case the IRS or estate trust is listening. It will be very interesting to see what independent people make of her, think she was far more intelligent and single minded than certainly I gave her credit for, she defiantly doesn't strike me now as just a Mary Poppins type with a naive perspective, great camera skills and plenty of time to take pictures. Hopefully some day someone will provide a more truthful rendition on what she was on about instead of the selfies and what looks like random street shots......or maybe thats all she was doing.John bought the whole lot and then others came to buy from him... You are probably right but I am not sure that the original auctioneer sold them for tens of thousands of dollars... My assistant was buying them on Ebay from John in the very early days.
Or maybe she wanted to portray how self serving and materialistic society has become, innocent children growing up to become adults locked in there own little world, despondent to the poor and needy, watching us all the time through her self portraits and in the ultimate form of art, she placed her pictures in lockers that would be easily found, so when they would be found people would squabble and trade over the treasures, she herself would die with dignity, penny less with out fame or fortune, pure and the best bit, cause she purposely didnt leave an heir or will, the treasure will have less worth, and become a poisoned chalice......bloody brilliant, makes Banksy look like an amateur.It almost makes you wonder if she did not set this all up with Mr Mal.....................
Ever heard of Ockham's razor?Or maybe she wanted to portray how self serving and materialistic society has become, innocent children growing up to become adults locked in there own little world, despondent to the poor and needy, watching us all the time through her self portraits and in the ultimate form of art, she placed her pictures in lockers that would be easily found, so when they would be found people would squabble and trade over the treasures, she herself would die with dignity, penny less with out fame or fortune, pure and the best bit, cause she purposely didnt leave an heir or will, the treasure will have less worth, and become a poisoned chalice......bloody brilliant, makes Banksy look like an amateur.
Ever heard of Ockham's razor?
For those that may be interested the BBC did a documentary on her a while ago, well worth a look if you have an hour to kill.
Theres also a few people working on autobiographies, think there is a lot more to her story than just a sweet nanny who liked to take random pictures. She sounds far more interesting than that and then her pictures can be looked in a different light.
For what its worth, there seems to be a huge misconception that Maloof discovered her pictures, this is not true, he was just one of many who bought her stuff after an auctioneer discovered her pictures among other personal possession in defaulted lockers he bought, the auctioneer is the one who saw initial value in her pictures bundling them up and selling for tens of thousands of dollars, he's the one to thank......all this while she was still alive and no one thought to contact her.
Brett Weston famously destroyed his negatives.
I have no problem with this.. I plan to not allow anyone print my negatives.. actually in my will right now..Which never impressed me in a positive way. The term selfish comes to mind.
Then you'd probably be better off destroying them. Your will won't stop anyone from printing a negative they have in their possession. Might not be able to sell the print, but if they have the neg, they can print from it.I have no problem with this.. I plan to not allow anyone print my negatives.. actually in my will right now..
thats going to be hard as I plan to print till the day I die... I am making my new space for work wheelchair accessible. I have good people around me that will carry out my wishes.Then you'd probably be better off destroying them. Your will won't stop anyone from printing a negative they have in their possession. Might not be able to sell the print, but if they have the neg, they can print from it.
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