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Title: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, now on iPlayer
Post by: ShadySue on June 25, 2013, 16:24

For any Brits who are interested and haven't caught the trailers, there's a documentary about Vivian Maier, the French nanny who photographed Chicago street life all her life but the photos weren't discovered until after her death.  I think I first saw the reference to her here on msg.
Anyway, BBC1's Imagine is doing a documentary on her starting at 22:35 (23:35 in Wales)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0366jd5 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0366jd5)

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, 22:35
Post by: fotoVoyager on June 25, 2013, 16:39

Good catch - set it to record, thanks!

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, 22:35
Post by: stockastic on June 25, 2013, 20:29

I am so fervently hoping PBS picks this up so I can see it.

Vivian Maeir was a huge talent, a master of the photographic art and a great observer of life.  The big question I guess is whether she realized any of that while she was alive.  I sure hope so.

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, 22:35
Post by: Imagenomad on June 26, 2013, 00:52

And it's still on iPlayer for those who can get it (by fair means or foul).

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, 22:35
Post by: uvox4 on June 26, 2013, 05:54

Cheers, will catch it on I player.

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, now on iPlayer
Post by: sharpshot on June 28, 2013, 05:26

Well worth watching, quite an amazing story.  There must be other great photographers that died and their work was just destroyed.  Its great that her photos survived but it doesn't seem right that people are making so much money when she was too poor to pay for films to be developed.

I liked seeing all the photos from one roll of film, so different from the way most digital photographers work now.  I'm so pleased that I had the film and darkroom experience but can't bring myself to go back to film.  I'm definitely going to do more B&W jpeg only though.  I don't like doing B&W from raw, as there's always the temptation to have a colour version as well.

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, now on iPlayer
Post by: uvox4 on June 28, 2013, 05:50

Just seen the program. Well worth watching. Interesting story and great photographer.  :)

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, now on iPlayer
Post by: sharpshot on June 30, 2013, 04:03

The same programme is on Don McCullin Tuesday night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3fp (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3fp)

Title: Re: Brits - Vivian Maier on Imagine, now on iPlayer
Post by: ShadySue on June 30, 2013, 06:10

Quote from: sharpshot on June 30, 2013, 04:03

The same programme is on Don McCullin Tuesday night.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3fp[/url] ([url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3fp[/url])

Thanks - I haven't seen any trailers for this one.