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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 47354" data-attributes="member: 6548"><p>Yes you are absolutely correct in saying that it would be an interesting project because it definately would.&nbsp; A few weeks back on another site there was a thread about Maier.&nbsp; Well that day I had heard an interview with a man who had just wrote a book about J Edgar Hoover...during one part of the interview he went into this spiel about how radically different it was to be homosexual back in the 40's 50's 60's...it hit me like a ton of bricks that perhaps because of her sort of darker side subject matter and her &quot;singleness&quot; and being a very private person and all of many other eccentricies that perhaps she was homosexual.&nbsp; I posited this on that thread and man o man you talk about taking over a thread!&nbsp; So yeah there is a whole whole lot to Maier for sure probably but the problem is the information is scant and the main sources of info are the guys who are exploiting her.&nbsp; An aside many folks took me to task for taking the exploitation stand...the general argument was let the man make a little money off his find and spread her work and legacy a bit...I don't buy it at all...if she would have wanted her life's work displayed she would have done so...I think the greatest question a person could ask about Vivian Maier is &quot;what exactly did her pictures mean to her (because no one else really got to see them)&quot; ?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 47354, member: 6548"] Yes you are absolutely correct in saying that it would be an interesting project because it definately would. A few weeks back on another site there was a thread about Maier. Well that day I had heard an interview with a man who had just wrote a book about J Edgar Hoover...during one part of the interview he went into this spiel about how radically different it was to be homosexual back in the 40's 50's 60's...it hit me like a ton of bricks that perhaps because of her sort of darker side subject matter and her "singleness" and being a very private person and all of many other eccentricies that perhaps she was homosexual. I posited this on that thread and man o man you talk about taking over a thread! So yeah there is a whole whole lot to Maier for sure probably but the problem is the information is scant and the main sources of info are the guys who are exploiting her. An aside many folks took me to task for taking the exploitation stand...the general argument was let the man make a little money off his find and spread her work and legacy a bit...I don't buy it at all...if she would have wanted her life's work displayed she would have done so...I think the greatest question a person could ask about Vivian Maier is "what exactly did her pictures mean to her (because no one else really got to see them)" ? [/QUOTE]

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