Vivian Maier: The Color Work

　　薇薇安．邁爾（Vivian Maier）不僅攝影作品強而有力，其神秘的生平資訊讓人霧裡看花、激起眾人的好奇，更增添她的特殊魅力。

　　從流浪保姆到二十世紀偉大街頭攝影師，謎樣的一生靠的是身後留下深鎖在閣樓箱子的數萬膠捲，拼揍出來。

　　攝影師 Joel Meyerowitz 為本書作序：「我看了這些作品後的第一感覺，是路上碰到驚喜的那種喜悅。她有一雙真實的眼睛，對人性、攝影，特別是街頭攝影，有自己真正的領悟，帶有溫暖與嬉鬧的品質。」透過 Joel Meyerowitz 和策展人 Colin Westerbeck 的闡述，以及從未發表過的超過 150 幅全彩照片，此書將帶我們更深入 Vivian Maier 的世界，了解她透過攝影紀錄下的，對世界的理解。（文 / 博客來編譯）

　　The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier.

　　Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest and most highly curated published collection of Maier’s full-color photographs to date.

　　With a foreword by world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck, this definitive volume sheds light on the nature of Maier’s color images, examining them within the context of her black-and-white work as well as the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had kinship, like Eugene Atget and Lee Friedlander. With more than 150 color photographs, most of which have never been published in book form, this collection of images deepens our understanding of Maier, as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present her interpretation of the world around her.