Two halves of an elderly couple, together so long that their bodies have almost merged, incline once more toward one another on what looks like a ferryboat. You don’t know how this will play out.Īnother kind of intimacy reveals itself sweetly in Slide 14. But there is a real tension in the meeting of their hands. His eight-point cap finds an echo in the theater marquee that almost could serve as her crown, since this is clearly And her? She’d knock his block off in a minute if he weren’t a cop. Preaching magisterially, looking taller than the brownstones behind him, he’d like to be reasonable - if the lady would The constabulary and the citizenry perform an intimate pas de deux in Slide 7. Open up Lens to full screen mode, if yourĬomputer allows. But if you haven’t already taken the time simply to look at her pictures, please do so now. The opening reception will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Maier is already being compared.īeginning Friday, she is to be honored with a one-woman show, “ Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer,”Īt the Chicago Cultural Center in the Loop. Harry Callahan is just one of the masters with whom Ms. Its jazz, while elevating and dignifying the people in her frames - vulnerable, noble, defeated, proud, fragile, tender and often quite funny. Maier’s streetscapes manage simultaneously to capture a redolent sense of place and the paradoxical moments that give the city (Frankly, Lens is late to the table.) Ms. The release of every fresh image on the Web causes a sensationĪmong the growing legion of her admirers. Vivian Maier, evidently one of America’s more insightful street photographers, has at last been discovered.

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