{"id":14609,"date":"2013-05-23T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2013-05-23T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:02:36","slug":"im-jealous-of-vivian-maier-john-maloof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/23\/im-jealous-of-vivian-maier-john-maloof\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of vivian maier &#038; john maloof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know this story? It&#8217;s a good one!  <\/p>\n<p>I wrote about Vivian and John <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/im-jealous-of-vivian-maier\/\">way back in 2009<\/a>. Their story is about an undiscovered, photographic gold mine. They never knew each other, but now they&#8217;ll forever be connected&#8230; A few years ago, John Maloof went to an auction house across the street from his home. For $380, he bought thousands and thousands of undeveloped negatives that had been abandoned in a storage locker by an American woman named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivianmaier.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Maier<\/a>. John started developing the negatives, and EUREKA!!!&#8230; he truly did find a gold mine. This is just a minute fraction of what he found:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14613\" title=\"vivian1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"3195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian1-144x1023.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vivian&#8217;s photographs are stunning, beautifully composed, intimate glimpses into American life in the 1950s and 60s. What&#8217;s not intimate though is the knowledge about who Vivian <em>actually <\/em>was. She died only days before John tried reaching out to her. He had so many questions &#8211; who was she? Why did this unbelievably talented woman never show her work to anyone? But now, thanks to a beautiful documentary that is currently in production, a few of those questions have been answered&#8230; and they&#8217;re a bit strange. A sneak peek at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivianmaier.com\/film-finding-vivian-maier\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivianmaier.com\/film-finding-vivian-maier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Finding Vivian Maier<\/a> &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2o2nBhQ67Zc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We wish we knew you, Vivian<em> {her self-portraits could be a post all on their own}:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14612\" title=\"vivian2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/vivian2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1364\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Love.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know this story? It&#8217;s a good one! I wrote about Vivian and John way back in 2009. Their story is about an undiscovered, photographic gold mine. They never knew each other, but now they&#8217;ll forever be connected&#8230; A few years ago, John Maloof went to an auction house across the street from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,533,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14609"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}