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Finding Vivian Maier

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Finding Vivian Maier

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If there is one photography exhibition or documentary you MUST see this year, it would be 'Finding Vivian Maier’.

An exciting photography exhibition (and documentary) about a nanny in 60-70's New York and Chicago who, unbeknown to many, had a secret passion for photography. Her incredible body of work, only discovered after her death, lives on and has established her as one of the master street photographers.

Real estate agent, John Maloof explains how a trip to a local auction house, in search for old pictures to use for a book history of his neighborhood, resulted in him bidding and winning a box full of old negatives. John, goes through the massive quantity of negatives, describes how impressed he was by the quality of the images, quickly determined they were not reverent to his project and just put them away. That could have very likely had been the end of the story, if the power of the images had not pushed him to fall in love with photography.

What happened next is nothing short than a photography phenomenon ...

Come join us in viewing the amazing Vivian Maier exhibition in FOAM (http://www.foam.org/visit-foam/calendar/2014-exhibitions/vivian-maier)

http://youtu.be/zya5kG_9cFw

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FOAM - Amsterdam Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 · Amsterdam