Vivian Maier: the Color Work by Colin Westerbeck

Vivian Maier: the Color Work

Colin Westerbeck

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 6, 2018

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Who it’s for
More than 150 color photographs bring Vivian Maier’s way of seeing into vivid focus.
Themes
Street photography, Color photography, Photographic interpretation of the world
Genres
Photographer Monographs, Street Photography, Color Photography

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About this book

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life.

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Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest and most highly curated published collection of Maier’s full-color photographs to date. With a foreword by world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck, this definitive volume sheds light on the nature of Maier’s color images, examining them within the context of her black-and-white work as well as the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had kinship, like Eugene Atget and Lee Friedlander. With more than 150 color photographs, most of which have never been published in book form, this collection of images deepens our understanding of Maier, as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present her interpretation of the world around her.

Color in the Street

More than 150 color photographs bring Vivian Maier’s way of seeing into vivid focus.

Come here for

  • Street photography with the immediacy of a keen observer
  • A substantial collection of Maier’s color work

Expect

  • A curated selection of more than 150 color photographs
  • Images considered alongside Maier’s black-and-white work

Where it sits

Photographer Monographs83%
Street Photography78%
Color Photography49%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Modern Art History (to 1945)
  • Artist Monographs
  • Color Photography
  • Exhibition Catalogs
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  • History of Photography
  • Photographers' Books
  • Photographer Monographs
  • Historical Photography
Authors
Colin Westerbeck
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
November 6, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Street photography · Color photography · Photographic interpretation of the world
Reading lane
Modern Art History (to 1945)