{"id":8837,"date":"2011-01-05T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T05:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2011-01-07T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T02:21:54","slug":"vivian-maier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/01\/05\/vivian-maier\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Maier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An unknown street photographer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kickstarter is a sort of poor man&#8217;s venture capital fund raising effort.  I first came across it when an engineer designed an elegant watch band for the sixth generation iPod Nano, soliciting the required $15,000 in funds to get production off the ground using Kickstarter.  I happened to have a Nano lying around so sent the young entrepreneur Scott Wilson $50 for his beautifully designed <a href=http:\/\/lunatik.com\/ target=_blank>LunaTik<\/a> watch band.  Scott ended up raising an astonishing $941,718 with each investor getting one of his watch bands when they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s another thrilling Kickstarter project devoted to showcasing the work of a 1960s Chicago street photographer named Vivian Maier.  John Maloof came across some 100,000 (!) of her negatives at an auction and realized he had hit on a treasure trove of great work by this reclusive photographer.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/www.vivianmaier.blogspot.com\/ target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Vivian_Maier_Kickstarter.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"177\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Click the above and you will be taken to the Vivian Maier blog, where you too can subscribe.  This is a great way of supporting little known photography which is desperately in need of exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of her work:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Vivian_Maier.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"396\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown street photographer. Kickstarter is a sort of poor man&#8217;s venture capital fund raising effort. I first came across it when an engineer designed an elegant watch band for the sixth generation iPod Nano, soliciting the required $15,000 in funds to get production off the ground using Kickstarter. I happened to have a Nano &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/01\/05\/vivian-maier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vivian Maier<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}