For the Love of Photography, Discovering Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier was a privately independent woman who was recently uncovered as a inextricably prolific photographer. She worked at shaping her craft in New York in the 1950's before moving to Chicago where she would spend the rest of her life. She was notably un-materialistic and earned money as a nanny. Late in her life, three of the children she had nannied split her bills, and in 2007, Maier's storage locker would be auctioned and her life's work which she has hoarded away would soon be discovered. Films, Audio, and documentation of a unique urban Americana of the 1950's through the 1990's were found along with over 100,000 negatives. Her work is now being exhibited. What a gift! Alt...Read more