Ok, so newest mini-obsession is with this woman, Vivian Maier. She was a nanny who on her off days took photographs of people on the streets of Chicago and New York from the 50's to the 90's. She wasn't known at all until after her death, when a man named John Maloof bought a box of her negatives at an auction and scanned her work and put it up. It's just so beautiful. Some photography annoys me--like, this doesn't need talent--anyone could take that photo. But this stuff is really, really great. The composition, the people, the bravery it must have taken to go straight up and just snap the photos. And the fact that it's in black and white because that's all she had back then doesn't help, either. Her work is slowly being put up by John Maloof on a blog I urge you follow. Here's the address: http://www.vivianmaier.blogspot.com/
and here are some of my favorites:
...and the rest won't seem to load. :( You should really look at the site. It's such good photography. It's hard to imagine being on those streets but kind of easy, too. Some are from over 60 years ago, but we cans till relate. Yet, we can't. It's kind of scary. We leave 2011, do you know how futuristic it sounds? It scares me sometimes.
