![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “When I saw Vivian Maier’s images for the first time in 2011, I knew right away I had to pay tribute to this woman,” says general editor Anne Morin, Director of diChroma photography in Madrid. Working as a governess for dozens of Chicago families, she maintained an extremely private life, and it is only now with the publication of Vivian Maier (Thames & Hudson) that the full story of her life and work can be told. The discovery of Maier’s archive set the art world aflame with its extraordinary wealth of street photography chronicling mid-century America. Maloof soon realised that he had stumbled upon an unknown master of street photography, later googling Maier and finding her obituary from 2009. They’d ended up in his possession after the former owner, Vivian Maier (born 1926), had defaulted on her payments. In 2007, John Maloof – a real-estate agent, amateur historian, and garage-sale obsessive – purchased a box of some 140,000 negatives on a whim at an auction in Chicago. ![]()
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