Kutxa Kultur Artegunea presents: Vivian Maier, Revealed Photographer

Curated by Anne Morin, the exhibition devoted to Vivian Maier will be on view in San Sebastian through October 20, 2019. Maier was born in New York in 1026 and died in Chicago, where she spent most of her life and where she worked as a nanny for well-off families, in 2009. The unique story of this photographer, renowned for her snapshots of everyday life in New York, the children she cared for, and her self-portraits, came to light after the filmmaker John Marloof purchased a box negatives at auction, and put it up for sale. Marloof was contacted by the historian of photography Allan Sekula, who called his attention to the value of the material. Research into the identity of Vivian Mayer began then. It is thought that her interest in photography derived from the time she and her mother lived with the photographer Jeanne Bertrand.

Vivian Maier, Revealed Photographer, brings together 135 photographs by the artist, grouped by theme into six sections: Portraits, mostly with a large variety of portraits of women, old people, and the destitute; Self-Portraits, which were especially significant in Maier’s work; Formalism, defined by Maier’s obsession not as much with the image as such, but with the photographic act; Childhood, a constant of great importance in her work, with children as protagonists be it posing individually, playing in groups, of looking intently at the camera; and Color Photography, starting in 1965, when Maier began to work with a Leica camera.

A selection of photographs accompanies another one of Super-8 mm films, made from 1960 on, which allows visitors to follow Vivian Maier’s gaze in motion.

For more information, visit: https://www.kutxakultur.eus/es/2019/07/vivian-maier-una-fotografa-revelada/