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The same place as Van Gogh and Emily Dickinson. She had little influence while she was alive, but will gain more as time goes on. Posthumous fame is a cliche in
by aristus 16y ago
The same place as Van Gogh and Emily Dickinson. She had little influence while she was alive, but will gain more as time goes on. Posthumous fame is a cliche in the arts.
- neilk 16y agovan Gogh only got serious about painting in the last decade of his life, and even then he was pretty well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_Gogh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_... Toulouse-Lautrec even challenged another artist to a duel over the worth of van Gogh's paintings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh_chronology#1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh_chronology#189... I'm only an amateur aficionado of photography, but Vivian Maier seems a bit different. The quality is undeniable but the style seems a bit derivative or antique by 2010 standards. At least so far, I don't see territory that hasn't been well covered by other street photographers. Maybe more treasures will be unearthed from the collection, though. A thought just struck me: maybe she just couldn't afford, or never had time, to get her negs developed. What sort of photographer might she have become if she could have closed that loop just a bit faster, or easier?