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Vivian Maier's Gritty City

9/21/2015

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A New York City nanny during much of her adult life, Vivian Maier surreptitiously amassed a store of significant photographs that chronicle a gritty New York City in the 1950s.

John Maloof discovered the immense body of her work - a foot locker stashed with thousands of negatives - at a thrift auction house in Chicago in 2007. He has brought this work into the public eye.

Maier’s keen eye and talented camera work have caught my attention as a painter. She has solved the value, the composition and the emotion. My only job is to render its color.

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Edith
9/21/2015 09:04:11 pm

Robert - you've got the legs down pat and the slightly grubby texture of cement and city air! I love this. Textured and palpable, a slightly luminous skin, or rather, the nylon covering it. Bravo.

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    Robert Chamberlin lives in Burlington, Vermont. By day he walks to his work as an engineer. By evenings,  weekends, and travel, he enjoys art, particularly paintings of all types. These are observations on art and life.

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