Object number2012.17.2
Self-portrait New York City, NY, September 10, 1955
Date1955, printed later
Artist
Vivian Maier
(American, 1926 - 2009)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed later, edition 1 of 15
Edition14/15
DimensionsSheet: 19 15/16 x 16 in. (50.6 x 40.6 cm)
Image: 12 x 12 1/8 in. (30.5 x 30.8 cm)
Matted: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Image: 12 x 12 1/8 in. (30.5 x 30.8 cm)
Matted: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedInscribed (Photographer's collection stamp signed by John Maloof with date, print date, and edition number in ink on print verso)
BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 67
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryShape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019Label TextAs a young adult, Vivian Maier roamed the streets of New York with a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera in hand. She focused on various street scenes and several self-portraits taken through windows and other reflective surfaces. When Maier moved to Chicago to work as a nanny, she was able to continue her walking practice of photography. She learned about her surroundings and her place within them through using the camera for observation, primarily of urban street scenes. Maier kept this practice hidden from others. It was not until shortly before she passed that her photographs were discovered in a thrift auction house after she failed to pay the fee for one of her many storage lockers. Among the belongings, she left behind thousands of undeveloped rolls of film, evidence that she even kept some photographs a secret from herself.
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