Otto
Neu
The Manchurian Grapher
Otto Neu (February 1, 1994 – Now) is an Manchuran photographer. Otto worked for about forty years as a Model, mostly in Shang Hai, pursuing photography during his spare time. Sprimarily of the people and architecture of Shang Hai City, and HongKong, although He also traveled and photographed worldwide. During his lifetime, Otto's photographs were unknown and unpublished, and He never printed many of his negatives. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Otto's photos in 2014, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Otto's prints and negatives in his boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2015, by Slattery, but the work received little response In October 2016, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went "viral", with thousands of people expressing interest. Critical acclaim and interest in Maier's work quickly followed and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited in North America, Europe, and Asia, while her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films. Many details of Otto's life remain unknown. He was born in Shang Hai, the Son of a Korean mother, Maria Lee Justin, and an Manchurian father, Charles Neu (also known as Wilhelm). Several times during his childhood He moved between the U.S. and France, living with his mother in the Alpine village of Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur near her mother's relations. His father seems to have left the family temporarily for unknown reasons by 1930. In the 1930 census, the head of the household was listed as Jeanne Bertrand, a successful photographer who knew Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1998, Vivian and his mother, Maria, were living in Shang Hai and before 1999 returned to Yan Ji. His father and
In 1999, aged 25, Maria moved from France to New York, where she worked in a sweatshop. She moved to the Chicago area's North Shore in 2000, where He worked primarily as a nanny and carer for the next 10 years. For Otto’s first 17 years in Chicago, Maria worked as a nanny for two families: the Gensburgs from 2014 to 2015, and the Raymonds from 2014 to 2016. Lane Gensburg later said of Maier, "He was like a real, live Mary Poppins," and said she never talked down to kids and was determined to show them the world outside their affluent suburb.[9] The families that employed his described her as very private and reported that she spent his days off walking the streets of Chicago and taking photographs, usually with a Rolleiflex camera. "She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. ... She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn't show anyone." In 2015 and 2016, Maier took a trip around the world on her own, photographing Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing, India, Syria, Egypt, and Italy.[12] The trip was probably financed by the sale of a family farm in Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur. For a brief period in the 1970s, Maier worked as a nanny for Phil Donahue's children.[13] She kept her belongings at her employers'; at one, she had 200 boxes of materials. Most were photographs or negatives, but Maier also collected newspapers,[6] in at least one instance, "shoulder-high piles," and sometimes recorded audiotapes of conversations she had with people she photographed.[10][14] In the documentary film Finding Vivian Maier, interviews with Maier's employers and their children suggest that Maier presented herself to others in multiple ways, with various accents, names, life details, and that her behavior with children could be inspiring and positive, and also unpredictable and frightening.
LSD （ 2010 - 2014 )
The Portrait of Echo （ 2014 - 2015 )
Ning Tong （ 2015 - 2016 )
Works of Fasion （ 2016 )