{"id":32216,"date":"2011-03-14T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32216"},"modified":"2015-09-20T23:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:26:36","slug":"class-in-vivian-maiers-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/14\/class-in-vivian-maiers-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Class in Vivian Maier\u2019s Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with praise for <a href=\"http:\/\/vivianmaier.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Maier&#8217;s mid-century photographs<\/a> of public New York and Chicago life. \u00a0 The photos were taken by a\u00a0live-in nanny working for wealthy families in Chicago&#8217;s north shore. \u00a0Her photos, over 100,000 of them, were discovered after her death two years ago. \u00a0To my untrained eye, they are gorgeous, interesting, and well-composed. \u00a0A fascinating look at another time. \u00a0More sociologically, they gracefully depict differences in socioeconomic class. I wonder if Maier, working-class herself, had a special sensitivity to these divides. In any case, I appreciate the texture that the photographs add to an understanding of how people of different classes lived.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the website devoted to Maier <a href=\"http:\/\/vivianmaier.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Photos borrowed from there and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/January-2011\/Vivian-Maier-Street-Photographer\/Photos-Vivian-Maiers-Street-Photography\/index.php?cp=3&amp;si=32#galleryanc\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Magazine<\/a>. \u00a0Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2011\/01\/08\/vivian-maier-street-photographer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crooked Timber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with praise for Vivian Maier&#8217;s mid-century photographs of public New York and Chicago life. \u00a0 The photos were taken by a\u00a0live-in nanny working for wealthy families in Chicago&#8217;s north shore. \u00a0Her photos, over 100,000 of them, were discovered after her death two years ago. \u00a0To my untrained eye, they are gorgeous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8070,29,253,341],"class_list":["post-32216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-class","tag-history","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32216"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68021,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216\/revisions\/68021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}