不知道大家是否注意到中国人拍出来的东西大多以风景为主，而老外的摄影大家们却一以拍人物成名，不知道是为什么。

尤其是最今在芝加哥发现的那位保姆街拍，看了她的片子，我能感觉到，她当时拍片子的时候一定离被拍摄体很近，没有这些头，那些头的。所以，老外的大师们的片子真的能让我思考关于人的问题。

而且这位保姆大师生前拍了数万的胶卷，居然没有无人所知。她的作品是被一位房地产从业员发现的，也是为了卖房子，成箱的胶卷堆在储藏室里。

这位卖房子的肯定会因此发财的。

外国也有很多的风光摄影者

Vivian Maier
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Maier in one of several self-portraits she took on the streets of Chicago
Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the U.S., worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, although she traveled worldwide, taking pictures in each location.
Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local historian in 2007. Following Maier's death her work began to receive critical acclaim.[1][2] Her photographs have appeared in newspapers in Italy, Argentina, and England, and have been exhibited alongside other artists' work in Denmark and Norway; her first solo exhibition is running at the Chicago Cultural Center from January to April 2011.[3]

Personal life

Many of the details of Maier's life are still being uncovered. Initial impressions about her life indicated that she was born in France,[4] but further searching revealed that she was born in New York, the daughter of Maria Jaussaud, who was French, and Charles Maier, who was Austrian. Vivian moved between the U.S. and France several times during her childhood, although where in France she lived is unknown. Her father seems to have left the family for unknown reasons by 1930. During the census that year, the head of the household was listed as award-winning portrait photographer Jeanne Bertrand, who knew the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[3]
In 1951, at 25 years old, Vivian Maier moved from France to New York, where she worked for some time in a sweatshop. She made her way to the Chicago area's North Shore in 1956 and became a nanny on and off for about 40 years, staying with one family for 14 of them. She was, in the accounts of the families for whom she worked, very private, spending her days off walking the streets of Chicago and taking photographs, most often with a Rolleiflex camera.[5]
John Maloof, curator of Maier's collection of photographs, summarizes the way the children she nannied would later describe her:
She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. She wore a men's jacket, men's shoes and a large hat most of the time. She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn't show anyone.[6]
Between 1959 and 1960, Maier traveled to Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Egypt, Italy, and the American Southwest, taking pictures in each location. The trip was probably financed by the sale of a family farm in Alsace. For a brief period in the 1970s, Maier worked as a nanny for Phil Donahue's children. As she got older, she collected more boxes of belongings, bringing them with her to each new post. At one employer's house she stored 200 boxes of materials. Most were photographs or negatives, but Maier collected other objects, such as newspapers,[3] and sometimes recorded audiotapes of conversations she had with the people she photographed.[5]
Towards the end of her life, Maier may have been homeless for some time. She lived on Social Security checks and may have had another source of income, but the children she had taken care of in the early 1950s bought her an apartment and paid her bills. In 2008, she slipped on ice and hit her head. She did not fully recover and died in 2009 at the age of 83.[4][3]
[edit]Photography

Maier's images depict street scenes in Chicago and New York in the 1950s and 1960s. An article in The Independent characterizes her photographs thus:
The well-to-do shoppers of Chicago stroll and gossip in all their department-store finery before Maier, but the most arresting subjects are those people on the margins of successful, rich America in the 1950s and 1960s: the kids, the black maids, the bums flaked out on shop stoops.[4]
Maier's photographic legacy, in the form of some 100,000 negatives — a large portion in the form of undeveloped rolls — was discovered by 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof, also president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society in Chicago. While working on a book about the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park,[7] Maloof bought 30,000 prints and negatives from an auction house that had acquired the photographs from a storage locker that had been sold off when Maier was no longer able to pay her fees.[2] After purchasing the first collection of Maier photographs in 2007, Maloof acquired the rest from another buyer at the same auction.[8][2][3] Maloof discovered Maier's name at an early stage of his discovery, but was unable to find out more about her until just after her death, when he found an obituary notice in the Chicago Tribune. Her work was first published on the internet in July of 2008 by Ron Slattery who had also purchased a good deal of her work at auction.[9] In 2009, Maloof started to post some of Maier's photographs on a blog, and later he announced his intention to publish a photo book of Maier's photography.[10] The book is scheduled to be released in fall 2011, and a feature-length documentary film about Maier and Maloof's discovery of her work, titled Finding Vivian Maier, is scheduled for release in 2012.[11]
Maier's photographs, and the way they were discovered, received international attention in mainstream media.[1][4][12][2

拍人物是关心社会问题；拍风光是回避社会问题。

据他讲他用的是holga相机拍的。这种相机在香港买50港币？

发现这么大的问题,得上报温大爷.

如果你是有心人,首先应该对自己有个定位.比如我对自己的定位是\"社会发展的记录者\".有了为什么摄影的前提,作品就有了明确的个性......

“拍人物是关心社会问题；拍风光是回避社会问题。 ”说得好！

帽子好大！
布列松拍的抱酒瓶的孩子，反映了什么社会问题？童工？

准确