A Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, examined the images and started to post Maier's photographs on the web in 2009, soon after Maier's death. Maier's photographs remained unknown, and many of her films remained undeveloped, until her boxes of possessions were auctioned off. During those years, she took more than 150,000 photographs, primarily of people and architecture of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, although she traveled and photographed worldwide. After returning to the United States, she worked for approximately forty years as a nanny in Chicago, Illinois. Vivian Dorothea Maier (Febru– April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer, who was born in New York City and spent much of her childhood in France. Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the best of her incredible, unseen body of work. It wasn't until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier's negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America's post-war golden age. Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide-from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries-and yet showed the results to no one. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no formal training and no network of peers. Qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. The first book to introduce the phenomenon that is the life story and work of Vivian Maier.Ī good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition impeccable timing a populist or humanitarian outlook and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. The original, instant classic which set the world afire.
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