Finding Vivian Maier

The story of Vivian Maier is extremely interesting, as is the story of how her work was quite recently discovered. I was very intrigued by the documentary about her stunning work and the unusual circumstances of her posthumous fame.

Eight years ago John Maloof found a random box of negatives in an auction. He was blown away by what he found and ended up tracing the rest of Vivian Maier's pictures, her life's story, and bringing her work to the public.

I was very sad to find out I actually just missed an exposition of her work in my city, but I only found out about her after that had closed down. Either way, this documentary was well worth watching. It has it's darker moments as well, but it was just incredibly captivating to hear all about such a complicated and solitary photographic genius.

Lovely Movies: Babies

The documentary Babies is something else. In the best way possible. It's not often you can see something without any narrative or dialogue, yet still be completely fascinated and entertained.

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You get a peek at the growing up of four babies from different parts of the world and get to see both the differences as well as what they have in common.

And if you do secretly want to hear someone talk about it, you can see the interviews with the parents in the extras of the dvd.