![]() ![]() She hoarded her photographs, negatives and newspapers and it was only shortly before her death that the photographs were discovered in an auction. Her photographs were extraordinary street scenes of New York and Chicago from across four decades. ![]() It’s always challenging to write a fictional account of the life of someone who lived – yet I suppose as so little was known about Vivian it gave Hesselholdt the space to fill in the gaps about this woman who during her lifetime took more than 150,000 photographs, mainly with a Rollieflex camera. The real Vivian Maier died in 2009 – after which her work became widely appreciated and left many wondering about the woman herself. This is a wholly fictionalised examination, an imagined life of a woman about who little seems to be known. Danish writer Christina Hesselholdt examines the life of enigmatic photographer Vivian Maier. Vivian – Christina Hesselholdt (2016) (translated by Paul Russell Garrett)Ī lovely Fitzcarraldo edition that Jacqui kindly sent me for Christmas. ![]() ![]() With seven books still to write about I am kicking off the catch up with a combination post.īoth of these were read during July I had no plan to get ready for #WITmonth it just happened to be what I read. I simply wasn’t up to blogging last week at all. Well, I am horribly behind in my reviewing (and blog reading too, I’m afraid) still clawing my way back to feeling more like normal. ![]()
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