About this item
Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story—thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction—has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully through the photographs she took only for herself. This new collection offers readers a chance to follow Maier as she travels the world, including images of France, Italy, Malaysia, Yemen, Puerto Rico, and America. These eye-to-eye portraits, published for the first time, are the single constant in her lifetime of photographic work. Maier is often cast as a quirky, antisocial character, moving on the outskirts of real connection. But these photographs show something more.
About the Author
No, I'm not the theologian nor the British actor who was married to Judi Dench--both impressive guys, but not me. I'm also not another Michael Williams who wrote several science fiction novels back in the 60s and 70s, I believe, and is about 15 years older than I am. I'm the one who started by working with Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's famous DRAGONLANCE project, with poetry and short stories back in the mid-1980s. I owe them a lot, though the work I'm doing now is quite different than what I was doing then.To make a long story short (which I'm not great at doing, so I became a novelist rather than doing the shorter pieces I started out doing)...When you've written poetry and short fiction, and an editor asks you if you'd "like to try doing a novel," what can you say but "yes", even if you're young and have no idea what you're doing? That's how I began my first novel, WEASEL'S LUCK, way back in the late '80s, and I dove in with the confidence that, unlike a fighter pilot or a neurosurgeon, a novelist can learn by on-the-job training.WEASEL'S LUCK turned out well, after all. It's sold over 700,000 copies world-wide, in a number of languages, and more people like it that hate it, and very few people are indifferent to it, so I think that adds up to a successful first novel. I followed it with several books in the DRAGONLANCE line, with two critically acclaimed novels, ARCADY and ALLAMANDA, and most recently, a big, sprawling magical realist novel called TRAJAN'S ARCH.It's an exciting time now, as TRAJAN'S ARCH is hitting the shelves all over the place, and is available here on Amazon. I hope you'll pick up a copy, and I hope you'll enjoy it. After twenty years of doing this, I think I'm catching on, and I hope my books catch on with you.
