I Know These People, People Like Me : More Images By Vivian Maier
One of the things about growing up in midcentury America was the seemly lack of interest in showing ordinary people of color, particularly black Americans in the main stream forms of communication of the time. We were starved for representation then along came the sixties and the seventies. I still search and think about the way images are made , presented and used.I was delighted to find these among Vivian Maier photographs
These remind me in a way of some of the lovely portraits Eudora Welty made, such as … http://clatl.com/binary/fa13/1296482139-z0301-733.jpg
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