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Autobiography And Film Analysis: Finding Vivian Maier

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INTRODUCTION
Autobiography is a combination of self-representation, and life narration usually being written by him or herself. It has also been around with its complex history. These individuals would usually engage in different aspect of lives, usually their own life, through modes of storytelling using narration, illustrations or performance. Being situated in a specific time and place, the individual subject is in dialogue with their own processes or archives of memory. In the process of remembering, the individual creates meaning of the past. Many individuals, including artists, uses autobiography as a way to negotiate with the past; being able to reflect on individual, and also to critique cultural norms and narratives. These fragments that are reflected by the individuals are then formed into complex constructions. Using these constructions as a material that is located in the individual and specific objects.

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He bought a box of her negatives during an auction in Chicago at 2007 for about $380. As explained by Maloof, the auction house told him that it was the works of Maier, and of course he could not have heard of her as Vivian Maier is an extremely private person. She was also a fascinating, passionate and somewhat perplexing woman. Her life is utmost interesting, partly Mary Poppins, and other half of Weegee ’

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