FINDING VIVIAN MAIER: OSCAR Nomination!

Photograph by Vivian Maier, Chicago, 1973

Copyright (c) Maloof Collection. www.vivianmaier.com ‪

The OSCAR Nomination here

Congratulations to Finding Vivian Maier Directors John Maloof and Charlie Siskel on their OSCAR nomination for Best Documentary Feature!

Finding Vivian Maier is The Boston Globe's pick for Best Documentary Oscar! Check out "Sorting through OSCAR Documentary Nominees" in The Boston Globe. 

Self-Portrait by Vivian Maier

Copyright (c) Maloof Collection. www.vivianmaier.com 

Watch The Trailer   
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Finding Vivian Maier 

is playing on Showtime on Demand to March 5, 2015

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FINDING VIVIAN MAIER: Academy Award Best Documentary Feature Shortlist / MoMA Screening

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER

Academy Award Best Documentary Feature Shortlist!

Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel. Producer: Jeff Garlin

The Academy's documentary shortlist includes FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, directed by John Maloof and  Charlie Siskel, now considered a competitive frontrunner in this race! 

"In FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, the film unfolds like a detective story, Maloof and filmmaker Charlie Siskel reveal Maier’s mysterious life as a nanny and a loner through the recollections of her various employers and their children, and as other details of her past come to light. Through the reconstruction of a large portion of Maier’s collection of over 100,000 photographs and interviews with other well-known American street photographers and collectors, the film challenges our notions of the artist and the creative act, and how art is made and marketed. This is Maloof's and Siskel's remarkable directorial debut.

MoMA Screening

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53 Street, NYC

~WATCH THE FILM TRAILER HERE!~

Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

Vivian Maier: Self Portrait

Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

ASX.TV: “Finding Vivian Maier” (2014)

Directors Charlie Siskel and John Maloof

Charlie Siskel is a television and film producer. His producing credits include the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, and Religulous. Finding Vivian Maier is his directorial debut.

John Maloof discovered the first negatives of Vivian Maier's work in 2007. Author of Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits and Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found, Finding Vivian Maier is his directorial debut.

~WATCH THE FILM TRAILER HERE!~

MoMA Screening

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53 Street, NYC

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER: Filmmakers

 Michael Moore with "Finding Vivian Maier" filmmakers 

John Maloof and Charlie Siskel at the DOC NYC Festival

 Vivian Maier—Courtesy of John Maloof

 Undated, Chicago area.  Vivian Maier—Courtesy of John Maloof

"In some ancient civilizations, one’s shadow alludes to a doppelgänger. There are many here. Shadows on sidewalks, shadows crossing over windows, over newspaper headlines, over dried leaves where her heart should have been...." –Elizabeth Avedon, Self Portrait: My Impression of Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
Photographs by Vivian Maier, Edited by John Maloof
Essay by Elizabeth Avedon. Published by powerHouse Books

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits was recently selected by American Photo as one of the best books of 2013 and includes my essay, Self Portrait: My Impression of Vivian Maier. See the book here 

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY: Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier: Self Portrait Exhibition

 Photograph (c) Dina Regine

Vivian Maier: Self Portraits

 

Glass case with Vivian Maier's Rollei and small color prints

Curator Frances Vignola and Filmmaker Collector John Maloof

Also showing, Vivian Maier's unpublished work

An exhibition of self-portraits by recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier made from 1950 – 1976 are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery to January 4, 2014. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the book Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (powerHouse Books, November 2013) that surveys Maier’s self-portraits, many of which are being shown and published for the first time.

The story of Vivian Maier has practically become a photography legend:  Born in New York City in 1926, she spent much of her youth in France. Returning to the U.S. in 1951, she worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York for 40 years. Reclusive and eccentric, she took pictures all the time, yet never showed them to anyone. From the 1950s to the 1990s, with a Rolleiflex dangling from her neck, she made over 100,000 images, primarily of people and cityscapes.

Maier’s massive body of work, which could have been destined for obscurity, was housed in a storage locker in Chicago for many years. Unbeknownst to her caretakers (three of the grown children she had looked after), the contents of her storage locker had been dispersed due to non-payment. Her negatives were discovered by Chicago-based realtor and historian John Maloof at an auction house in Chicago in 2007. Maloof pieced together the identity of the mysterious photographer, but Vivian Maier died in 2009, before Maloof was able to speak with her. In the years that followed, Maloof has brought her work to the attention of the art world and the general public; and since 2010, nearly 20 exhibitions of photographs by Vivian Maier have been mounted in the U.S. and Europe. Numerous critics have written that her work will be remembered as some of the best 20th-century street photography.

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait at Howard Greenberg Gallery is the first exhibition to explore the photographer’s numerous self-portraits and the first U.S. gallery exhibition of her color work.  

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait
Exhibition: Nov 7 – January 4, 2014

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
Photographs by Vivian Maier, Edited by John Maloof
Essay by Elizabeth Avedon. Published by powerHouse Books

(Text courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)