Vivian Dorothea Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer, who was born in New York City but grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago, Illinois. During those years, she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and street scenes in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed in other countries.
Her photographs remained unknown and many of her films where mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, in 2007. Following Maier’s death, her work began to receive critical acclaim. Her photographs have been exhibited in the US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011.
Author: Glenn Meyer
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Vivian Maier
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Jillian Lochner
Jillian Lochner is located in the United Kingdom. She studied photography at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is known for her edgy fashion and creative work.
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Clint Clemens
Clint Clemens specialises in HDR/CGI car photography and advertising. It was around 1980 when got the idea to attach a camera to a car. After numerous failed attempts using steadycams, and other devices from the video world, he and Craig Hunter of Safari Filmworks in California invented his patented camera mount using SpeedRail. He also invented a system that would allow him to drive the car while looking at a video screen that showed his a real-time view through his viewfinder and remotely trigger the camera to take the shot at exactly the precise time.
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Nigel Harniman
Harniman Photography – Award winning Automotive Photographer and Lifestyle/People Photographer.
“I really can’t remember when wheeled objects with or without engines weren’t part of my life.
As a kid I spent all my spare time tinkering with engines, pulling things apart and putting them back together, not always successfully! My first taste of life on the road was in an old hearse travelling around Europe. I’ve loved to travel ever since – good news for a location photographer!
When I was 16, I badgered the parents for a motorbike for my birthday, instead they bought me a camera. At the time I was gutted, but as it turned out the present became my vocation. And I’ve never looked back”. Nigel Harniman
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Des Kleineibst
Des Kleineibst has been a professional advertising photographer in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa since 1980 and internationally since 1999.
He specializes in Automotive Photography shooting cars and trucks in studio and on location for above and below the line advertising agencies, CGI, Virtual Tours for Automotive 360 Exteriors and Interiors and Tourism websites.
Landscapes, Seascapes, Motion and Textures In Nature are his other passions.
Des Kleineibst is an automotive location and studio photographer with 28 years of experience. His passion for landscapes has taken him into the virtual world of CGI, leading him to invest in Spheron HDR and Panoscan camera systems and to open his own in-house CGI studio.
Des has been shooting on high-end PhaseOne and Hasselblad digital systems for nine years and owns his co-built 10m carbon fibre rig. He lives in Cape Town and has shot for all the major car ad agencies in South Africa. He maintains car studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas (1921 – 1986) was a photojournalist and a pioneering colour photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. He was most notable for using slow ISO Kodachrome film as a creative medium.