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THOUGHTS: Vivien Maier photo and Dolores
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Fran Assa writes:
Apropos of Dolores
This is a photo by Vivien Dorothy Maier who died in 2009 at the age of 83.
Her negatives, approximately 100,000 of them, were sold off a few years
earlier by the owner of the storage locker where they were kept, to pay for
the unpaid charges. They were discovered at an auction. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
Obviously when I saw this photo I immediately linked it to one of Nabokov
sitting in a car. Only, eerily, he has been replaced with the face of a
young girl of Lolita’s age with an enigmatic expression. I call the
photo *Apropos
of Dolores* after the title of an HG Wells book, since Wells was beloved by
Nabokov.
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Apropos of Dolores
This is a photo by Vivien Dorothy Maier who died in 2009 at the age of 83.
Her negatives, approximately 100,000 of them, were sold off a few years
earlier by the owner of the storage locker where they were kept, to pay for
the unpaid charges. They were discovered at an auction. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
Obviously when I saw this photo I immediately linked it to one of Nabokov
sitting in a car. Only, eerily, he has been replaced with the face of a
young girl of Lolita’s age with an enigmatic expression. I call the
photo *Apropos
of Dolores* after the title of an HG Wells book, since Wells was beloved by
Nabokov.
--
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
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http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
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