This morning, sitting at my computer, I somehow jumped to the introductory page of a documentary Finding Vivian Maier. I once saw an introduction about Vivian in the WeChat Moments. At that time, I only thought her works were really beautiful, but I couldn't read more. I opened her website and started to appreciate her work page by page. The people and scenes in the photos seem to have no evaluation, no praise or criticism, and no emotion. From the lens, I can feel Vivian's warm eyes after looking down on everything. Her camera embraces all of this, melting the boundaries between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, leaving only a gentle and kind smile.

After reading Vivian's works, I began to observe my life through her eyes. Those scenes of happiness or sadness seem to have become pictures of black and white square composition. In the past, those disputes that insisted on distinguishing right from wrong are more tender in the photos. The scene of arguing with my family, the scene of being reprimanded by the teacher, the scene of leaving my hometown on the train full of expectations for the future. . . Looking at the self-righteous me who was trapped in the small inner world in the "photo", I suddenly felt that it was really cute. Those confessions, those remorse, over the years, seem to be fading. I saw other people in the "photos" who were my closest relatives, and I never really felt their hearts and cared about them. In those finger-pointing scenes, everyone is trapped inside and struggling. And now it looks cute.
Suddenly I found that my life was a wonderful comedy, and my memories were summed up in Vivian-style black and white photos, without color, but full of sunshine.
Selfless and warm love can give us a renunciation and achieve the beauty of art that truly nourishes people's hearts.

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Vivian Maier's warm eyes

Keyon 2022-04-09 09:01:08

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Mae 2022-04-23 07:05:58

People she's been with criticize her for being inhuman, or show sympathy, and think she's had a poor, poor life, but that's how she lives, and she's happy and prosperous. Photography is a talent for Vivienne. God has given her the ability to capture the momentary state of others, and to gain insight into the vigilance of natural charm. So rare and mean, more or less because of the changeable personality, we can find the footprint of this freak from another angle 7.8
Dessie 2022-04-23 07:05:58

Different images in different populations, closed life before death and reputation after death, searching for a lot of fragments still can't piece together a complete Meier: this mystery has become a part of the legend just like the hundreds of thousands of photos left behind.