Hi Markus, I'm writing with a reminder about an amazing art exhibition I’m working on, running through June 18, for your consideration to do a story.  Vivian Maier, who previously worked as a nanny on the North Shore, had rolls and rolls of photo negatives (more than 100,000) that were left abandoned in a storage locker and only recently found after her death in 2009.  Since then, she has slowly but surely come to be known as one of the greatest street photographers - perhaps of all time.    Since their recent discovery, her photos, which evocatively capture life in the ‘50s and ‘60s in the U.S. and abroad, have appeared in newspapers in Italy, Argentina, and England. There have been exhibitions in Denmark and Norway, and a showing in January 2011 at the Chicago Cultural Center (which was among the best-attended photo exhibitions at the Cultural Center).  Now, there is a collection of never-before-seen photographs (including a collection of photographs that Maier developed herself) on display at Russell Bowman Art Advisory in Chicago [Chicago’s River North neighborhood] through June 18.   More details are included in the press release pasted below, as well as a few examples of Maier's photos that are part of the exhibition.  If you’re interested, I can gladly coordinate an interview with Jeffrey Goldstein (who owns the photos in the exhibition, which are for sale for the first time ever).  He can tell this amazing story!  Thanks so much for your consideration, and please don't hesitate to contact me if I can provide high res photos, additional info/materials or help you to coordinate an interview. Matt

For Immediate Release Media Contact Matt Miller, Carol Fox and Associates (773) 327-3830 x104 mattm@carolfoxassociates.com

RUSSELL BOWMAN ART ADVISORY PRESENTS THE “VIVIAN MAIER, PHOTOGRAPHER” EXHIBITION NOW THROUGH JUNE 18, 2011   Recently Uncovered Collection of Vintage Photographs Reveals an Intimate Portrait of Midcentury Life by an Unheralded Master Photographer

CHICAGO – Russell Bowman Art Advisory is presenting an exhibition of previously unseen works by recently discovered Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier (1926 ‐2009) now through June 18, 2011 at its gallery in River North (311 West Superior, Suite 115). Maier’s work, which intimately documents mid-century life in New York and Chicago, came to light in 2007 when boxes of her work, including hundreds of rolls of undeveloped film, were discovered at an in an abandoned storage locker. In recent months, Maier’s incredible story and her impressive body of work has been heralded by critics and national publications alike.   Completely unknown during her lifetime, Vivian Maier was born in New York City, but spent much of her youth in France. Returning to New York in 1951, she combed the streets, documenting the city’s inhabitants and offering an intimate glimpse into urban lives and relationships. Maier moved to Chicago in 1956 where she worked as a longtime nanny for North Shore families. Often referred to as an “eccentric Mary Poppins,” Maier continued to take photographs well into the 1990s, but never allowed her work to be viewed. Along with newspaper clippings and other historical artifacts, Maier stashed hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film and photographs in a storage locker, where they were later deemed abandoned and auctioned off. Maier died in 2009 in a nursing home at the age of 83.   Maier has been the subject of commercial gallery exhibitions in Germany and Norway and media coverage from CBS, BBC, Time Magazine and many others including the current issue of Mother Jones. Her first American exhibition, Vivian Maier, Street Photographer, was recently presented to tremendous critical acclaim at the Chicago Cultural Center.   The New York Times praised Maier’s work, saying that, “Ms. Maier’s streetscapes manage simultaneously to capture a redolent sense of place and the paradoxical moments that give the city its jazz, while elevating and dignifying the people in her frames — vulnerable, noble, defeated, proud, fragile, tender and often quite funny. Harry Callahan is just one of the masters with whom Ms. Maier is already being compared. […] a precious past has been rescued that we didn’t even know existed; thousands of blinks of the civic eye, tens of thousands of beats of the public heart.”   The Russell Bowman Art Advisory “Vivian Maier, Photographer” exhibition will feature previously unseen photographs from the Jeffrey Goldstein collection. Mr. Goldstein shares ownership of the artist’s work with John Maloof, who first discovered Maier’s photography in 2007. The exhibition will feature prints made by the artist herself as well as images later printed from her negatives by Ron Gordon, a master gelatin silver printer from Chicago. The collection includes images shot in New York between 1951 and 1955 and in Chicago from 1959 to 1971, and many of the photographs feature subjects common in Maier’s work, including street culture, architectural views, children, the elderly and one striking self‐portrait. Both Maier’s original prints and those made from her film will be available for sale, and pieces range in price from $1800-5000.   The “Vivian Maier, Photographer” exhibition can be viewed at Russell Bowman Art Advisory (311 West Superior, Suite 115). Exhibition hours are Tuesdays – Wednesdays by appointment and Thursdays – Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.   #          #          #

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