Somerset Maugham wrote a philosophy of reading, "Reading is a Small Shelter You Carry With You." To use the title of the book, "Street photography is a spiritual castle that comforts the self." This sentence can be used to describe Vivian Maier .
She has been a nanny for 40 years, but street photography and movies are her favorites.
She dresses rough and masculine and walks windy, but she is so soft on the inside.
She is peerless and independent, never belonging to her world, but the world is in her eyes.
Her life has been full of contradictions, but she has found the best reconciliation in creative street photography.
In the narrator's mouth, Vivian Maier is a withdrawn, neurotic, calm, vigilant, and sensitive woman; socially, she may be a socialist and a feminist.
She is actually very concerned about people and society, from her love of street photography, traveling around the world, to collecting newspaper clippings covering social issues.
Vivian Maier is a real artist on the fringe or outside the territory, and "one of the greatest photographers" of the 20th century is not a bad name.
Her street photography and self-portrait works, with clear ideas, exquisite composition, and outstanding images, have direct and strong tension, which makes her video art impossible to ignore.
Most of Vivian Maier's works are in black and white, which is not so much a public memory of the city and society of the 1950s and 1970s, but a wonderful cry of her inner world.
Vivian Maier once said to people who didn't understand her, "I'm kind of like a spy". She embraces the world with great enthusiasm, but deliberately keeps a distance from others and the world.
It's like she's asking her employer to provide a locked nanny room, and she's daring and willing to intervene when photographing people on the street.
In addition to economic reasons, most of her more than 100,000 photos were never shown before her death, perhaps she didn't need it, because the world of images was a spiritual castle that she tried her best to build and that others were not allowed to set foot in.
In other words, every time she presses the shutter, she has completed a dialogue with the world, which is enough.
And the only secret channel is her camera. She is hidden behind the camera, but she is everywhere like a transparent person.
Vivian Maier is a collector of everything from newspapers, letters, to receipts, train tickets and more. Like many people, it seems that only those past objects can prove that she has come and existed in this world.
Yet Vivian Maier records the city, and thus herself, her solitude, floating, and seeing, thinking, and certain.
Vivian Maier proves with herself:
The real existence of a person is never the attention of the media, social reputation, and commercial traffic, but whether you take care of yourself and make yourself a unique "treasure".
You see, the world finally found out that a man named Vivian Maier was there, always there.
When she was discovered, each of us was discovered.
As a nanny, Vivian Maier took care of others all her life.
As a street shooter, Vivian Maier takes care of herself completely.
Existing like Vivian Maier may be a beautiful choice.
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