The late Vivian Maier, a nanny, is one of the hottest names in photography. Famous for leaving more than 100,000 undeveloped negatives behind in storage, Maier died before her work came to light. Her ...

Carole Pohn, with her children Jennifer and Andy in 1962 or '63, says photographer Vivian Maier called her "the only civilized person" in the Chicago suburb where they were neighbors. Vivian Maier / ...

For decades, North Shore nanny and amateur street photographer Vivian Maier privately captured everyday Chicago life in visceral detail, in the worn faces of men on a park bench, a construction worker ...

Vivian Maier obsessively documented the world around her from the 1950s to 1990s. This month, Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found will be published—the largest collection of her work to date. On ...

In her groundbreaking biography “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” Pamela Bannos offers an exhaustively researched and engrossingly written examination of the life and work of the ...

Is an artist's life relevant to her reputation as an artist? Not so much, perhaps, but many of us want the bio anyway, especially when the artist in question is as tantalizingly elusive as Vivian ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If you open up Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits seeking answers as to who she was, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Heritage Auctions Vivian Maier is known for her historic street photography, but the ...

Four years ago, Vivian Maier was a literal unknown, a reclusive former nanny whose name had been printed in the paper only when a trio of brothers she used to care for paid to run her obituary in the ...

In 2007 John Maloof, a self-described “third-generation flea-market seller,” spotted some vintage photos of Chicago in a commercial storage locker being auctioned off for nonpayment. An amateur ...

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In 2011, a new art star burst onto the scene. A nanny and a self-taught photographer, Vivian Maier had roamed the streets of New York City and Chicago in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, her pint-sized ...