tell wrote:
Very cool! I wonder though, the guy bought the negatives, and he has a right to display them as "editorial", but once he puts out a book, doesn't it become commercial and thus require photo releases? Just curious.
My understanding is that as long as he doesn't use them for commercial advertising purposes, he can sell a book with the images and would not need releases from recognizable faces. Now if he shot someone with a toothbrush in their mouth and sold the image to Colgate to use on a billboard, I think that'd be a different story...
I just took a look at the effort to raise money for the documentary. Money has been pouring in. They are $600 short of their goal as of this post: SEE HERE FOR INFO
Wow Tom! Thanks for posting that update. When I posted this a few days ago, I believe they were only at about $6000 towards their $20,000 goal....now they are only a few hundred away. That news story must have been great for them....that or each of the FM backers here are really generous!
Tom K. wrote:
Another link with a short film about the project to complete a documentary about Vivian Maier: CLICK HERE TO SEE
Why not help it out?
Wow Tom a much better reception over here LoL The work and the story are both amazing. I'm going to see the show here in Chicago at the Cultural Center. IIRC it opens on the 7th of Jan.
1) Already mentioned that she shot for her in the moment. An escape from reality journey/hobby with no end game or expectation. Everyone should operate like this; very hard to do.
2) The work is so stunning to us because it is of things we've never seen before. And certainly not to belittle the incredible imagery this women captured, but you can't take those pictures today! None of it exists any longer. ...And any picture that can be taken today is being taken up one side down the other.
If anything this should be a huge lesson to everyone that realizes the deeper meaning of her work.
Brian Virts wrote:
Incredible story! Two things here:
1) Already mentioned that she shot for her in the moment. An escape from reality journey/hobby with no end game or expectation. Everyone should operate like this; very hard to do.
2) The work is so stunning to us because it is of things we've never seen before. And certainly not to belittle the incredible imagery this women captured, but you can't take those pictures today! None of it exists any longer. ...And any picture that can be taken today is being taken up one side down the other.
If anything this should be a huge lesson to everyone that realizes the deeper meaning of her work. ...Show more →
I couldn't agree more. What we will never know is how she would have presented the work. What she would have chosen to show and in what order as in an exhibit or in a book which we all know that sequence and what we edit out is also extremely important.
As you also mentioned the work came from a very pure and honest place. She did the work for no other reason than she had to. And artist must create for no other reason but the actual creation. When Winogrand died they found 100,000 unprocessed images in his home.
airfrogusmc wrote:
Wow Tom a much better reception over here LoL The work and the story are both amazing. I'm going to see the show here in Chicago at the Cultural Center. IIRC it opens on the 7th of Jan.
I would love to see that show. I live in Connecticut and getting to Chicago isn't in the cards for me right now with my work schedule. It would be great if you could report back on the show for those of us who can't see it.
