Awe, fascination, immeasurable compassion: Anyone who looks at the life of Vivian Maier quickly finds themselves in a whirlpool of violent emotions. On the one hand, the biography of this great photographer is so wondrous that Hollywood could turn it into a new artist’s film that conjures up all the clichés of an unrecognized and slightly crazy genius. On the other hand, this life has been so sadly lonely that one could once again ask oneself: Is artistic obsession the result or the cause of all the suffering? What is coincidence and what is necessity in such a life? And who actually was this mysterious Vivian Maier, who had, as it were, risen from the dead?
Photographer Vivian Maier: Nobody should see these selfies – culture
