Vivian maier

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.

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Vivian Meier - self portrait

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

Vivian Maier

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 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’

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier’s rare street shots of New York and Chicago on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier - Self portrait, 1955

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.

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…

A new book provides the most comprehensive survey of her work to date.

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

En 2011, deux ans après sa mort, la photographe Vivian Maier s’est fait connaitre avec ses photographies prises dans les années 50-60 dans les rues de N