THE GREATEST LONELY PHOTOGRAPHER OF ALL TIMES - VIVIAN MAIER

Who produces, publishes, shares their art, does it by routine, and why not automatically? But who owns the art? Who it belongs to? 

When creating, the painter, writer, composer, its there drowned in a million of influences, but in the end hes alone. Every artist is lonely. 

Vivian Maier, and below theres a brief text about her, lived a life of a non artist - are we all potential artists? - and produced the best street photographs i've ever seen. The sensibility, the frame sense, the insatiable work taking lots of photos, and even her great height helped her become the biggest of all times. 

She must have think that since her art was made by herself, then it would belong only to herself. She never showed her work to anyone, however nobody had the curiosity to know the reason she was always taking photos. Would that be the problem of people around the world? The little interest for the lonely art. 

Art sinks in each artist's job thats ignored. Ignoring makes the materialization of the feelings and influences go sour. This handling is brainless. 

Vivian Maier, today, has her work published by a third part. Would she like that? Vivian Maier rest alone, just as alone she did her art. Nothing has changed for Vivian, and it has for people. The art remains succumbing to the world where it should be light. 

Art in its deepness, hidden art, actual art. Vivian Maier was right, who deserves art? Everybody? Or nobody?

Photos: laweekly.com

Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide. During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never printed. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went "viral", with thousands of people expressing interest. Critical acclaim and interest in Maier's work quickly followed, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited in North America, Europe, Asia and South America while her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films.

Source: Wikipedia.