Vivian maier street photographer

Vivian Maier spent some forty years working as a nanny in Chicago. When she died in 2009 at the age of eighty-three, she left behind well over a hundred thousand photographic negatives, evidence of decades spent wandering the streets of her hometown, as well as others cities and locales around the world.

The Vivian Maier story has taken another ironic turn as Jeffrey Goldstein (who once owned the second largest collection of Vivian Maier negatives) has

Découverte par John Maloof en 2009 ... l'histoire d'une photographe passée totalement inaperçue sa vie durant, et pourtant, quel talent incroyable. Voir ici la discussion lancée par J. Maloof sur Flickr : <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/72157622552378986/">www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/72157622552378986/</a>

Vivian Meier - self portrait

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Playing at the Berlin Wall 1962

Vivian Maier is the Emily Dickinson of street photography. Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for more than a half-century, and took thousands of brilliant photographs, never sharing them with anyone except, occasionally, for the children in her charge. Some of her negatives were found by chance, when a local real estate agent purchased them at an auction house; now an exhibition of her photography is traveling the world (this summer it's in the U.K.)....

Vivian Maier - Self portrait, 1955

Vivian Maier

USA, Women - A decade ago, experts and the general public were surprised by the impressive photographic work of a previously unknown artist

Vivian Maier, an excellent New York street photographer who took thousand of photos in the 1950s and 60s, was left woefully unacknowledged during her time. It was only in 2011, two years after her death, that her photos were recognized for their raw beauty in a collection published by historian and collector John Maloof.

Vivian Maier

Documenting the fascinating discovery of an unknown street photographer, a website devoted to Vivian Maier provides a glimpse into the work of a prolific shutterbug. A nanny in Chicago — she once watched over Phil Donahue’s children — Maier had a…

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Vivian Maier

~ Vivian Maier ‘Self-Portrait’

Vivian Maier, Chrysler Imperial, Suburban Chicago, 1957

Vivian Maier

Two years before Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, 30,000 of her negatives were bought at a Chicago thrift auction by former estate agent John Maloof. He was writing a book on Chicago history. Maier had been unable to pay the rental on a storage locker. So 100,000 of her unseen negatives housed … Continue reading "Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York"