A Chicago nanny is being discovered as one of the most visionary, prolific street photographers of the mid-20th Century several years after her death. The photographer, whose charges she watched as a nanny have described her as a Mary Poppins type, is Vivian Maier, born in 1926 and died in 2009.
Her work remained primarily undeveloped and undiscovered until John Maloof, a Chicago historian, discovered rolls and rolls of undeveloped film at an auction of items from a storage unit. He subsequently became the curator of her work. Now, her photography is being shown at respected museums and galleries throughout the country and money is being raised on Kickstarter for Finding Vivian Maier, a documentary on her extraordinary work.
Here’s a news story about her work and how it was discovered:
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