This translation from Spanish (original text) to English is not professional. I have done it with Google, so there will be linguistic errors that I ask you to know how to hide. Many times I have been asked to read my texts in English, and that is why I decided to do it. In addition to your patience, if you see something that I can correct, and wish to notify me of it, I will be happy to do so. In the meantime, with its lights and shadows, here are the lines that I have written. Hugo Kliczkowski Juritz
Finding Vivian Maier
The theatrical release of “Finding Vivian Maier” in the US was on March 28, 2014.
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) always carried a Rolleiflex camera around her neck, but jealously hid her photographs from others.
His black and white photographs, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, are striking images of the architecture and street life of Chicago and New York. He rarely took more than one frame of each image and concentrated on capturing children, women, the elderly, and people on the street. The breadth of Maier’s work also reveals a series of striking self-portraits, as well as prints from his travels to Egypt, Bangkok, Italy, the American Southwest, and elsewhere.
The exhibition “Vivian Maier, Street Photographer” includes more than 100 black and white and color photographs and 8 mm films taken by Maier. The Hamilton Art Gallery is the first Canadian gallery to present the exhibition.
On November 11, 2011, John Maloof presented slides and explained the life and work of Vivian Maier, in New York at the powerHouse Arena at 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. John Maloof spoke about his extraordinary discovery of Vivian Maier’s photography. Along with a Q&A and slideshow, Maloof detailed his experience discovering the extensive work of Vivian Maier and shared his insight into the curious Chicago nanny turned posthumous street photographer phenomenon.
The event was ahead of the launch of Vivian Maier: Street Photographer.
The Maloof Collection and Merry Karnowsky Gallery (170 S. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles) presented “Vivian Maier: A Life Discovered” on January 7, 2012.
Its opening was filmed and became part of the documentary by “Vivian Maier. Photographs from the Maloof Collection, featured by Tim Roth.
It chronicles the remarkable discovery by John Maloof in 2007 at an auction house in Chicago.
Maier is recognized as a photographer who is an icon of her vision from the 1940s to the 1970s.
He shot more than 2,000 rolls of film, printed more than 3,000 photographs, and produced more than 150,000 negatives depicting the street life and architecture of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the American Southwest, as well as destinations as far away as Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Egypt and Italy.
Maier died in 2009 at the age of 83, before the extent of his legacy was fully understood or revealed.
The Maloof collection is comprised of approximately 90% of Vivian Maier’s work, meticulously reconstructed, archived and catalogued.
The collection contains between 100,000 and 150,000 negatives, more than 3,000 vintage prints, hundreds of rolls of film, home movies, audiotape interviews, original Vivian Maier cameras, documents and various other items.
From June 21 to October 20, 2019, Kutxa Kultur space at Tabakalera in San Sebastián. “We intend for him to access the identity that he never had throughout his life and his place in photography. Give her a beautiful story after her death, because she was never recognized for her origin and her status and submitted to her status as a nanny.” “…Maier’s photographic writing can be compared to that of the great photographers of the 20th century, so exhibitions like this aim to do justice to his memory.” “There are aspects in which she was a pioneer, such as her color work, with which she was 15 or 20 years ahead of that of William Eggleston (1939) in the 70s, and with her super 8 films, in which she anticipated the language of John Cassavetes (1929 – 1989) from the 70s and 80s showing the scenes with his own perspective…I think the fact that he was self-taught gave him a freedom of syntax that differentiated him from the rest”.
The exhibition was curated by Anne Morin (Rouen 1973), a graduate of the École Nationale de Photographie d’Arles and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Montpellier.
“Thank you for keeping me alive”. Sixto Rodriguez
The exhibitions made with material from Vivian Maier have been many, if it makes sense to put some here it is to give the vision of the enormous work that Maloof has done so that Vivian can be present in our lives, perhaps I would never have dreamed or wanted it, but I am I’m sure she would be as surprised as she was delighted, especially because she could have had resources to live her last years with more dignity.
I would have said, like Sixtus, “Thank you for keeping me alive.”
His story reminds me of the story of Sixto Rodríguez (Jesus Sixto Diaz-Rodriguez (Detroit 1942 – 2023), revealed in Malik Bendjelloul’s fantastic 86-minute 2012 Swedish-British documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/somos-documentales/searching-sugar-man/6752174
Sixto Rodríguez (so called because he was the sixth child in the family) was a little-known singer who worked singing in bars.
At the end of the 1960s he was contacted by two music producers who convinced him to record an album, “Cold Fact” in 1970, which did not have commercial success, an attempt the following year with a second album “Coming from Reality” in 1971, neither did It had good sales in the United States.
Sixto never knew of his enormous success in South Africa, after the poor sales of his two albums in the US, he left music and dedicated himself to working in construction.
But, oh surprise, he was no longer an outcast, his work was very well received in South Africa, where the lyrics of his songs and the mystery that surrounded the singer transformed him into a very popular figure among the country’s young people.
His album Cold Fact was adopted as a symbol of the fight against apartheid.
His lyrics, several of his songs were banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
South African musicians such as Koos Kombuis (1954), Willem Möller and Johannes Kerkorrel (1960) were inspired by Rodriguez’s message.
Thanks to the efforts of two South African fans (Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew-Strydom) they discover his whereabouts. The documentary narrates the trip that Rodríguez made to South Africa in March 1998, where he played six concerts. After this, the singer continued to live modestly in Detroit and donate all the money raised at the concerts to his family and friends, returning sporadically to the African country to play some concerts.
Fate caused him to be compared to Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.
Our singer died at 81 years old.
2022
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes MK9 3QA, United Kingdom
2021
Werkstattgalerie Hermann Noack, Berlin, Germany
Luxembourg Museum, Paris, France
2020
Cascais Cultural Center, Cascais, Portugal
Fabriken Bästekille, Kivik, Sweden
Porto Seguro Cultural Space, São Paulo, Brazil
Art Angle Corporation, Taipei City, Taiwan
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
FoLa Latin American Photo Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2019
Museum of Ancient Évêché, Grenoble, France
Meravigli Way, Milan, Italy
Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste, Italy
Kutxa Kultur Artegunea, San Sebastian, SS, Spain
Somerset House, Strand London, United Kingdom
Sofia Art Galleries, Sofia, Bulgaria
Scuderie del Castello Visconteo, Pavia Italy, Italy
Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Spanish Art, Valladolid Spain, Spain
Lumiere Gallery, Atlanta GA, United States
Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge LA, United States
Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, France
2018
KP Projects, Los Angeles CA, United States
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY, United States
Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin, Germany
Hanks Photo Lab, Mount Vernon New York, United States
70 South Gallery, Morristown New Jersey, United States
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale New York, United States
Pallavicini Palace, Bologna BO, Italy
International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis MO, United States
2017
KP Projects, Los Angeles CA, United States
The Granary Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard MA, United States
Doge’s Palace of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY, United States
The Art Center in Tarnow, Tarnow, Poland
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
FoLa Latin American Photo Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016
ILEX Gallery, Rome, Italy
CAMPREDON Art Center, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, France
Dell’Arengario Palace, Monza, Italy
Lumiere Gallery, Atlanta GA, United States
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA, United States
Canal Isabel II Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, United States of America
Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland
Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Sergel Square, Sweden
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2015
Valparaiso Cultural Park, Valparaiso, Chile
Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, United States
Meravigli Way, Milan, Italy
Photo Beijing, Beijing, China
Las Condes Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile
HarperCollins BookLab, New York NY, United States
MAN Museo D’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro NU, Italy
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Sherrick & Paul Gallery, Nashville TN, United States
Museum of Art, Lexington KY, United States
Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Bernal Space Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Art, Pullman WA, United States
Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin, Germany
2014
Fifty One Fine art photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Beetles + Huxley, London, United Kingdom
Lumiere Gallery, Atlanta GA, United States
Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, France
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY, United States
FotoFocus Biennial, Cincinnati OH, United States
Center for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy Victoria, Australia
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
December 17, 2013 – January 25, 2014
“Vivian Maier: street photographer”
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dec 2 to Dec 23, 2013
“Vivian Maier”
Beetles+Huxley, London, United Kingdom
November 17, 2013
Presentation of the film “Looking for Vivian Maier” – US premiere
SVA Theatre, New York NY, United States
November 8 to January 4, 2014
“Vivian Maier: a photographic revelation”
CHÂTEAU DE TOURS, Tours, France
October 16 to December 21, 2013
“Vivian Maier exhibition in Paris”
Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, France
October 6 to December 18, 2013
“Vivian Maier: the lens of a woman”
Brandeis University – Women’s Studies Research Center, Waltham MA, USA
September 4 to October 27, 2013
“Vivian Maier Street Photographer”
Isa Spalding Gallery, Toronto, Canada
April 16 to June 29, 2013
“Vivian Maier + Saúl Leiter”
Fifty One Fine art photography, Antwerp, Belgium
March 11 to April 3, 2013
“Vivian Maier”
Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London, United Kingdom
October 1 to November 13, 2012
“Vivian Maier: I keep it safe”
Gallery dell’Incisione, Brescia, Italy
September 20 to January 6, 2013
“Vivian Maier”
Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
February 3 to April 22, 2012
“Vivian Maier: discovered”
Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe NM, United States
January 7 to January 28, 2012
“Vivian Maier” – Hosted by Tim Roth
Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, United States
October 10, 2011 – December 9, 2011
“Vivian Maier – Photographs from the Maloof Collection”
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY, United States
September 11 to October 9, 2011
“Vivian Maier – Street Photographer”
Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
July 29 to September 16, 2011
“Vivian Maier: a life revealed”
Photofusion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
July 5 to August 5, 2011
“A la recherche de Vivian Maier (In Search of Vivian Maier)”
Gap Library, Gap, France
July 1 to July 24, 2011
“Vivian Maier – A life discovered”
London Street Photography Festival, London, United Kingdom
June 28 to July 3, 2011
“A la recherche de Vivian Maier (In Search of Vivian Maier)”
Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur, Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur, France
January 27 to April 28, 2011
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star.”
Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Hamburg, Germany
January 7 to April 3, 2011
“Looking for Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer”
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, United States
November 18 to December 4, 2010
“LOOKING FOR VIVIAN MAIER.”
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