Vivian Maier
The work of Vivian Maier, one of America’s more insightful street photographers, has only just been discovered 2 years after her death.
John Maloof, a 29-year-old eBay entrepreneur acquired his first boxful of her negatives for $400 at an auction in 2007. He is only about one-tenth of the way into the task of scanning and archiving 100,000 negatives of hers in his possession, and they have yet to develop several hundred rolls of black-and-white film and about 600 color rolls.
What is known about Ms. Maier is that she was born in New York in 1926 and later moved to Chicago, where she worked for about 40 years as a nanny. On her days off, she wandered the streets of New York and Chicago, most often with a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera. Apparently, she did not share her pictures with others. Many of them, she never saw herself. She left behind hundreds of undeveloped rolls.
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