TheWabashLights project...
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if you ever lived in this city, ahDAcity, you walked under the wabash L.
the looping Loop L screeching away as you ride life looking east, looking north, south and west, away... all the way under the wabash L... iconic chicago, dirty, scummy, noisy, smelly, simple, gorgeous chicago illuminated in a flash...
because these lights are for you, all... who moved under the wabash L, and still, it moves inside of you... traqueteándote, el perenne ruido del tren... peroadónde va tanta gente, adónde... al sur, al norte, aquí, aquí a mi lado... porque ya sé, ya sé... espérame en la wabash, undostres
dónde, dime dónde? debajo de la luz roja... no, 'pera, no, debajo de la azul.
y verás, que por fin habrá luz en medio del burdel.
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available October 6, 2017
preorder here @amazon Pamela Bannos: Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker
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But, as Pamela Bannos reveals in this meticulous and passionate biography, this story of the nanny savant has blinded us to Maier’s true achievements, as well as her intentions. Most important, Bannos argues, Maier was not a nanny who moonlighted as a photographer; she was a photographer who supported herself as a nanny.
In Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife, Bannos contrasts Maier’s life with the mythology that strangers—mostly the men who have profited from her work—have created around her absence. Bannos shows that Maier was extremely conscientious about how her work was developed, printed, and cropped, even though she also made a clear choice never to display it. She places Maier’s fierce passion for privacy alongside the recent spread of her work around the world, and she explains Maier’s careful adjustments of photographic technique, while explaining how the photographs have been misconstrued or misidentified.
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This authoritative and engrossing biography shows that the real story of Vivian Maier, a true visionary artist, is even more compelling than the myth.
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