![]() ![]() ![]() It is, after all, a tale of mystery and intrigue: a woman who works as a nanny, never marries, says almost nothing about her life and childhood, dies in obscurity, dwarfed by the belongings she hoarded, only to be unveiled as one of the boldest and most poetic street photographers of the 20th century. The discovery of Vivian Maier caused a sensation in the art world, and her story has captivated many. ![]() Some buyers, curious about the photos they found, began posting them on the internet. One buyer bought the whole lot, and put it up for sale again in four or five subsequent auctions, thus setting in motion the scattering of Maier’s work. The padlocks came off, and all her photos and old cameras, her stacks of newspapers, magazines, and other items, went up for blind auction. But in the months before she died on April 21, 2009, aged 83, her storage lockers went into arrears. ![]() She was perceived by the locals in her Rogers Park neighborhood as a cantankerous old bag lady who ate food out of cans. TO MANY, Vivian Maier is known as the mysterious Chicago nanny who took photographs secretly - thousands and thousands of photographs, often left as undeveloped rolls of negatives, which she then boxed up and stored in lockers. ![]()
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