Vivian Maier / Une vie en latence ?

L'image qui se révèle lors du processus de développement, ou lors du tirage, a toujours quelque chose de magique... Elle se révèle littéralement.
Quand il s'agit de quelques films oubliés, ou même de beaucoup de films, la magie est bien plus grande.
Mais lorsque c'est toute une vie qui émerge, lorsqu'on a la sensation que le monde est passé à côté de quelque chose - et plus encore de quelqu'un - la magie tourne à la mauvaise blague.

Diane Arbus, née en 1923, photographe immense, reconnue, suicidée...
Vivian Maier, née en 1926,... on dirait qu'une sorte de suicide précède sa photographie, sa mort, et enfin aujourd'hui sa reconnaissance.
Qu'est ce qui peut dans une vie faire de tels génies, et tant de malheur?

Quand vous aurez enfin l'occasion de voir le film "Finding Vivian Maier", ne le manquez pas.

Vivian Maier / her discovered work

"Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work

(...) Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1990s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes about 100,000 mostly medium format negatives and a ton of undeveloped rolls of film. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. (...)

(...) Out of the roughly 100,000 negatives I have in the collection, about 20-30,000 negatives were still in rolls, undeveloped from the 1960's-1970's. I have been successfully developing these rolls. I still have about 600 rolls yet to develop. I must say, it's very exciting for me. Most of her negatives that were developed in sleeves have the date and location penciled in French (she had poor penmanship). (...)"

Source: Blog de John Maloof

(...) "@Pachinko: The first batch of rolls came out a bit thin but mainly usable. It was only after developing about 100 rolls that I realized I should be pushing these. Since then, they have been fine. She used Kodak Tri-X 120 film. Every roll was hand labeled in French. (...)"

Source: Flickr

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