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傳奇街拍攝影師薇薇安‧邁爾首本全彩作品攝影全集

街拍攝影師薇薇安‧邁爾的作品魅力仍舊令許多人著迷不已，儘管她的人生仍是一個巨大的謎團。一個看似平凡以攝影為興趣的保母，為何會成為美國傳奇街拍攝影師？唯一的線索就是在她死後所留下超過15萬張的攝影作品，包括照片、底片和未沖洗的膠卷。

這本攝影集收錄她最大量及最受歡迎的彩色影像作品。前言邀請到殿堂級街頭攝影師Joel Meyerowitz和知名策展人Colin Westerbeck共同撰寫，透過這本作品集可觀察到薇薇安‧邁爾的取材著重色彩和圖案，例如她特別偏愛拍攝路人的紅色服裝。從40,000張彩色作品中挑選150張收錄在這本作品集中，搭配策展人精闢的文字解說，帶領讀者發現更多她鮮為人知的故事。

Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest and most highly curated published collection of Maier’s full-color photographs to date.

With a foreword by world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck, this definitive volume sheds light on the nature of Maier’s color images, examining them within the context of her black-and-white work as well as the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had kinship, like Eugene Atget and Lee Friedlander. With more than 150 color photographs, most of which have never been published in book form, this collection of images deepens our understanding of Maier, as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present her interpretation of the world around her.