The Mag - 12 October 2014

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." -  Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer and photojournalist




THE MAG

Self Portrait Vivian Maier

HER SELFIE

Herself

aka, The Nanny

"We have to make room for other people.  It's a wheel.  You get on.  You go to the end.  And someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end.  And so on.  And somebody else takes their place." - Vivian Maier

When I grow up

I long to be

just like the -

secret street photographer
that folks
call Vivian.
 She's a matter of fact
tell it like it is gal
snapping to evoke
the very nature of folks.

A hands on the hip kind of gal
showing young minds
the world outside
even if it blows their minds.

I'd go on a shooting spree

not to fill up

a shutter of captures

like a pornographer
might do
but rather
just like Vivian
shooting life's little details
her focus 
not so much on crocus
but rather
bits of ruckus
upon ordinary streets


People at their most silly, or vulnerable moments

being just like

a demographer

or a autobiographer

one shutter at a time

taking 150 thousand captures

like a secret street photographer-

photographs
everyday.

I see a lot of myself within Vivian Maier and her captures.

To see a short clip of her work check out the link below.

The Vivian Maier Mystery Movie video here 

Who Took Nanny's Pictures?