Views on Vermeer: 12 Short Stories by Hans Pool and Koos de Wilt (2009, 52 min., video.). Views on Vermeer travels to New York, Holland, France, London, and Washington, introducing us to artists, writers, and photographers whose lives and work are directly inspired by Vermeer, and others for whom the connection to the old master is less direct, yet no less vital. Two of the more striking sequences in the film juxtapose the work of Girl with a Pearl Earring novelist Tracy Chevalier with that of Steve McCurry, the photographer who shot the famous photo of an Afghan girl that appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic.

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