This withdrawn, neurotic, calm, vigilant, sensitive woman, with her sheer curiosity and enthusiasm for life, is out of this world. Her unusual persistence is even more difficult for ordinary people to understand. The ordinary people I am talking about are you, me, and him, who can compromise and make peace with the world.
Vivian Maier, she has retained her love for photography, her excessive attention to strange events, her love and collection of various small objects, her approach to strangers and her alienation from acquaintances, and she also retains watching this by herself. The unique perspective of the anxious, indifferent, and prosperous world, this interesting she has many, many edges and corners. Will take care of children, and will stab others. Will be full of adventurous spirit, but also unexpectedly crazy.
Her talent and her character are so unique. In those pictures, there are ordinary people who are majestic and full of oppression, mature and profound children, workers' round buttocks covered in cement, and others because of being disturbed. On the face full of anger, there are quiet and beautiful buildings, there are dead horse corpses on the ground, there are her selfies that always show a calm and calm temperament, and there are beautiful smiles of girls. There were so many negatives that she couldn't finish it herself. Every frame and every picture is frozen in a lonely and secret negative.
Her artwork, dusted in boxes wrapped in duct tape.
Her life is hidden in the social identity of a nanny.
Her talent is a secret.
She speaks at least two languages, traveled to many countries and corners by herself, and she took tens of thousands of photos. She lived out herself instead of confining herself to her job as a nanny.
She is materially poor and self-deprecating: "The poor can't afford to die." But her attitude towards life is profound: "Nothing can last forever, we have to leave space for others, just like a wheel, you When he goes up, he will come to the end, and then someone else will take his place." Her spirit is deep and persistent, she takes all her collections and her negatives, and says to her employer: "I take mine with me. Life."
Someone said: I think she looks down on these low-paid employers. It has also been said that she has a dark side. Such as sneaking away on purpose, leaving children in an alley; abruptly closing a basement door and locking a child alone in it; or forcing a child to eat. She has light and darkness. Like the mother of a child, she also suddenly shows a dark side. The child who bluntly stated that she had psychological problems and who played with her back then finally tried to sum up her after experiencing the joy of recalling, slight anger, and excitement: it was all because she was suppressed. She is too lonely and not understood.
She and her family are all alone. They do not communicate with each other. Relatives are not even better than friends.
During this search trip, she even discovered that her mother is also a photographer. In her mother's negatives, there is a young Vivienne. A softer Vivien than an adult who likes to wear loose and gender-agnostic clothing.
The director of the museum that holds all her negatives said: "Some people's personalities make them, and they always fail at the last moment of success. You know she doesn't think of herself as an artist, she's just doing this." Work. There is always a standard hanging over our heads so when someone shows up it always feels like they're second-rate, but I don't think she's second-rate, and when I look at her pictures, I always feel like there's something first-rate in.
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