Celebrated by The Wall Street Journal , Vanity Fair , The New York Times , American Photo , Town and Country ,and countless other publications, the life's work of recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier has captivated the world and spawned comparisons to photography's masters including Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walker Evans, and Weegee among others. Now, for the first time, Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait will present the fullest and most intimate portrait of theartist herself with approximately 60 never-before-seen black-and-white and color self-portraits culled fromthe extensive Maloof archive, the preeminent collector of the work of Vivian Maier and editor of the highly acclaimed Vivian Maier: Street Photographer —bringing us closer to the reclusive artist than ever before.

2007年，美国芝加哥的跳蚤市场上出现了一批老照片和底片，拍摄内容很丰富，有人文肖像、街头抓拍、社会热点、儿童生活、抽象光影等。拍摄手法娴熟，堪称经典之作。但人们并不知道摄影师是谁。随着更多资料的出现，“薇薇安·梅耶”出现在大众视野里。 今天，薇薇安·梅耶这位颇具传奇性的摄影师逐渐被人熟知，她一生以保姆为职业，曾经环游世界，在芝加哥住了近50年，留下17万张底片。虽然各界对薇薇安的作品评价各异，但所有人都不否认她的照片“极具感染力”。 本书提供了一个线索，完整呈现了薇薇安其人其作的发现过程，逐渐丰富的背景资料让薇薇安的形象越来越清晰丰满。但薇薇安的故事还没有结束，因摄影作品的版权争议，所有整理工作已经暂停。人们期待继承权之争尘埃落定后，能看到更多薇薇安的作品。

Product Description A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no formal training and no network of peers. Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City, to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age. It wasn’t until realtor and amateur historian John Maloof stumbled upon a box of anonymous negatives in a Chicago auction house just a few years ago that any of her marvelous work saw the light of day. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the first wave of the best of her incredible body of work—much of which still hasn’t been enlarged or in some case even developed into negatives. Hidden treasures like this don’t come along every day, and powerHouse is excited and honored to present this astounding body of never-before-seen work to the public at large. About the Author There is still very little known about the life of Vivian Maier. What is known is that she was born in New York in 1926 and worked as a nanny for a family on Chicago’s North Shore during the 50s and 60s. Seemingly without a family of her own, the children she cared for eventually acted as caregivers for Maier herself in the autumn of her life. She took hundreds of thousands of photographs in her lifetime, but never shared them with anyone. Maier lost possession of her art when her storage locker was sold off for non-payment. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 83. John Maloof is a historian, street photographer, and former real estate agent from Chicago’s Northwest Side. He discovered the first negatives of Vivian Maier’s work in 2007 while compiling a book about the history of the neighborhood where he grew up.