Some Photos by Vivian Maier

Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime. During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never printed. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008 on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went “viral”, with thousands of people expressing interest. Critical acclaim and interest in Maier's work quickly followed, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited in North America, Europe, Asia and South America while her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films. Here: This 1956 photo provided by the Estate of Vivian Maier and John Maloof Collection shows a self-portrait of Maier in a series of mirrors at an unknown location. New research about Maier shows the enigmatic Chicago nanny was obsessive about honing her skills as a photographer starting in 1950. (Photo by Vivian Maier/Estate of Vivian Maier and John Maloof Collection via AP Photo)
Some Photos by Vivian Maier
   
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