Vivian maier

Vivian Maier (American, 1926-2009), Self-portrait, 1959

by Vivian Maier

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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.

New York, Vivian Maier

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

Vivian Maier

~ Vivian Maier ‘Self-Portrait’

vivian maier

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier. Autoretrat, 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. Selfportrait

Vivian Maier - Emmett Kelly as the clown figure "Weary Willie"

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

Admirers struggle to reconcile Vivian Maier’s posthumous reputation as an artist with her work as a nanny.

Vivian Mayer