From 7 September 2023 to 28 January 2024 Palazzo Pallavicini will host the "Vivian Maier - Anthology" exhibition in the splendid Renaissance rooms, an extraordinary exhibition of almost 150 original and Super 8mm photographs by one of the most loved and appreciated photographers of this century. The exhibition is organized and created by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci of Pallavicini srl with the curatorship of Anne Morin of diChroma photography based on photos from the Maloof Collection archive and the Howard Greendberg Gallery in New York.

The curator made a very careful selection from the thousands of photographs available; in fact, 111 black and white photographs will be presented, plus a wonderful section of 35 color photos, divided into six sections for such a complete anthology never seen in Bologna. An absolute novelty in Bologna will be the Super 8 vision which will allow you to follow the gaze by Vivian Maier, who began filming street scenes, events and places as early as 1960. Maier filmed everything that led her to a photographic image: she observed, intuitively focused on a subject and then followed it. He zoomed in on the target to approach from afar, focusing on an attitude or detail, such as the legs or hands of people in the crowd. The film is both a documentary — a man arrested by the police or the destruction caused by a tornado — and a contemplative work — the strange procession of sheep heading to the slaughterhouses of Chicago.

Vivian Maier often becomes the subject of her photographs with the aim, almost obsessive, of searching for herself, imprinting her shadow, her reflection, her silhouette in the shot. The large number of self-portraits present in his photographic production seems to express a sort of legacy towards an audience that he did not want, or perhaps could not, represent.

A significant evolution in Vivian Maier's work is the transition from black and white photographs to color images; the change does not only concern style, but also technique: from the Rolleiflex he passes to the Leica, a light camera, easy to carry which gave the possibility of taking photos directly at eye level. His color work is singular, expressive, free, sometimes even playful, but always with that specific characteristic of randomness.