Vivian Maier: The Color Work

The first comprehensive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier is titled Vivian Maier: The Color Work. It includes over 150 color photographs, many of which have never been published before, and provides insight into her life and work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The enigmatic American street photographer Vivian Maier's first comprehensive monograph on color photographs is still captivating today. Despite the many mysteries surrounding her life, her captivating allure continues to endure. The secretive nanny-photographer who became a trailblazing pioneer photographer has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she created and the few facts that have surfaced about her life.

Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the most extensive and meticulously curated published collection of Maiers full-color photographs to date. This definitive volume, with a foreword by renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck, sheds light on the nature of Maiers color images, examining them within the context of her black-and-white work and the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had a kinship, such as Eugene Atget and Lee Friedlander. With over 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 her keenness to record and present her interpretation of the world around her.

Weight: 1998g
Dimension: 321 x 267 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780062795571