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The Art of Photography

Vivian Maier :: Lost And Found

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

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4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Arlington Museum of Art to see their exhibition Vivian Maier :: Lost And Found, Street Photography 1950-1970. Vivian Maier at the Arlington Museum of Art DVD: Finding Vivian Maier http://amzn.to/29p6bbN Books: Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found http://amzn.to/29ocTzR Vivian Maier: Street Photographer http://amzn.to/29p5Upk

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Yesterday I had an opportunity to visit the Arlington Museum of Art to see an exhibition titled

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Vivian Meyer, Lost and Found, Street Photography 1950 to 1970.

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I want to talk about that exhibition in this video because I was really genuinely

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impressed with this I thought it was simply outstanding in fact if you're in the

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Dallas-Fort Worth area at all I believe it runs until August 21st 2016 I

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highly recommend you check out this exhibition. It is fantastic.

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Arlington is a city that sits between Dallas and Fort Worth and they have a really nice

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art museum there that's hosting the exhibition pretty much the entire

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ground level the atrium is filled with prints,

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as well as about three and a half rooms upstairs.

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And the show consists of 50 silver gelatin prints that are organized thematically by subjects.

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So you have photos of children,

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self-portraits, location-based work, etc.

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Locations involved are Chicago, New York City,

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and one of my favorite images, which is the woman in the white dress

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walking towards the car was shot in

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Florida and I have been pretty critical of the people who handle Ms Meyer's work in

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the past for the print quality among other things but I just don't think that the first book was

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very well done the first edition anyway and some of the early print work was not up to

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par but I have to say that the print work in this show is absolutely outstanding and I assume the

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printing was done by Steve Rifkin who is listed on the Vivian Meyer website but

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the cards on all the images just simply tell you the date it was shot and say printed later.

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