A stash of over 100,000 brilliant photographs by an unknown photographer was discovered when real estate agent John Maloof bought the negatives as part of a storage locker at a Chicago auction house.
To the outside world Vivian Maier was just a nanny and housekeeper working in Chicago. But she also had a hidden talent that has not been recognised until after her death in 2009. Maier spent her life wandering the streets of Chicago with a Rolleflex camera strapped to her neck taking remarkable black and white pictures of a different side of the city, and a different side of life in America.
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Well what do you know, there is a Web site and a book and gallery prints and everything at Vivian Maier. It tells about her life, and more details on how her work was found and saved.