Vivian Maier
(American, 1926–2009)
Biography
Vivian Maier was an American street photographer whose body of work was only discovered after her death. Maier took over 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, capturing the people and architecture of Chicago on a Rolleiflex camera as she walked the city on her days off. Born on February 1, 1926 in New York, she moved to Chicago in 1956, working as a nanny for wealthy families in the North Shore neighborhood. Her work has been compared to Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Weegee, both for her spontaneous shooting style and for her fascination with human behavior. She died in Chicago on April 21, 2009, and two years before her death, a storage unit with her negatives, prints, audio recordings, and 8 mm film was auctioned to three separate buyers. One of them, John Maloof, began sharing a selection of Maier's images in 2009 on his blog, generating significant public and critical interest. Maloof went on to produce an award-winning 2013 documentary about the elusive photographer, Finding Vivian Maier, as well as authoring the 2014 monograph Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found.
Vivian Maier
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.jpg "NEW YORK, NY (UNITED NATIONS), 1954")
.jpg "Canada (kids in car)")
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