Photography nerd alert - two things to check out over the
coming days, weeks, months:
The documentary Finding Vivian Maier (now showing at the
Cinema Nova, Elsternwick Classic and the Belgrave Cameo) and the exhibition
Richard Avedon People (running from 6 December 2014 to March 2015 at the Ian
Potter Museum of Art, Parkville) should get your shutters fluttering like
nothing else.
Finding Vivian Maier is a justifiably feted documentary
about Vivian Maier, an eccentric American nanny whose private stash of over
100,000 photographic negatives and assorted films found their way into the
hands of John Maloof, a 20-something real estate agent, flea-market hound and
amateur historian. The film tells two intertwined stories - his serendipitous
good luck and subsequent efforts to have Vivian’s work recognised as some of
the best street photography of the 20th Century (evoking Weegee,
Diane Arbus and Robert Frank among others), as well as the strange life of this
odd-duck babysitter as she’s remembered by the parents and children for whom
she worked. A ripper of a story, exceptionally told.
The reclusive Vivian Maier is a stark contrast to the high-profile
Richard Avedon, fashion photographer, celebrity snapper and portraitist whose well-known
work spans more than 50 years. Still, his black and white portraits of
celebrities are gorgeous and always worth a close-up look, so get down to the
University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art and check out Richard Avedon People (admission is
free!).
Happy snappy!
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