Born in New York 1926, Vivian Maier was an American-French photographer who worked as a nanny in Chicago from the mid-1950’s to the 1990’s. In 2007, two years prior to Maier’s death, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof purchased a box filled with 30,000 negatives from an estate sale for $400. On discovering the quality of beautiful street photography, Maloof then bought other boxes of Maier’s negatives in an attempt to find out more about the woman who took them:
An exhibition of Maier’s work opens at the Chicago Cultural Center today, and there is more on Maier and her photography here.
(via PetaPixel)
Interesting find…modern day Abbott to Atget?
You’ll also find a Kickstarter project to make a
documentary about her.
Thanks Thom. :-)