If you ever wondered what kind of photos Mary Poppins would have taken, these are it. Especially if she lived in mid-century Manhattan, never made enough money to make rent, and didn’t have a magical umbrella to spirit her away.
A professional care-giver and nanny, Vivian Maier remained an undiscovered street photographer until her death in 2009. It wasn’t until a locker, containing hundreds of thousands of negatives, was auctioned, that her art came to light.
Rolls of undeveloped film.
Vivian Maier spent most of her life in Chicago and New York. She never studied art, instead she relied on her experience to educate her. We don’t know much about her life, but her photographs, some taken years before Diane Arbus became a household name, are a haunting portrait of post-World War II America.
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
by John Maloof, 2011
“Vivian Maier represents an extreme instance of posthumous discovery; of someone who exists entirely in terms of what she saw” –Geoff Dyer
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