L’enquête peut commencer.
Date : Jeudi 20 janvier 2021
Heure : à 18h30
Lieu : Galerie d’art et de créateurs Vue sur cours,
5 bis cours Mirabeau
11000 Narbonne
The Vivian Maïer phenomenon begins in 2007 with John Maloof – a 25-year-old real estate agent – blindly buying tens of thousands of negatives and understanding the treasure he has in his hands.
However, Vivian Maïer continues his life in the most total anonymity and it is the announcement of his death in a newspaper in 2009 – at the age of eighty-three years – which gives the first clue to his buyer. .
The investigation can begin.
Without family or support, Vivian Maïer can only count on herself. She accepts her condition – without being hostage to it – and tells one of her employers “some people live to work, I work to live.”
After a stint in a doll factory, she gained her independence through the profession of nanny, which she remained all her life. An unlikely career for someone who refuses all physical and emotional contact and who has a habit of disappearing from people’s lives without ever trying to see them again. Some testimonies are poignant, we detect a taciturn woman, difficult to access, full of paradoxes but above all a creative superiority inextricably linked to photography. The children in her care retain precise, sometimes tender, sometimes bitter memories of the photographic expeditions in which they are mobilized and the skill with which their nanny obtains their collaboration.
Maryse and Michèle will read you an excerpt from the beautiful text entitled:
“A woman against the light” that Gaëlle Josse dedicated to this exceptional woman.
Date : Jeudi 20 janvier 2021
Heure : à 18h30
Lieu : Galerie d’art et de créateurs Vue sur cours,
5 bis cours Mirabeau
11000 Narbonne
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