This is what we know about Vivian Maier: She was born in New York City, of French descent, in 1926, and died in 2009. She lived mostly in Chicago but traveled the world alone for eight months in 1959.

The story of how the Durham artist and collector Jeff Goldstein came to own several thousand vintage Vivian Maier prints begins, as Goldstein tells it, with “everything from bedbugs to guns.” ...

And if you look at Vivian's work, I think, you know, you don't need to be an expert in art and the history of photography to just take one look at her work and see that this is the work of a master.

History | July 9, 2024. Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century. The self-taught artist is getting her first museum ...

Maloof, co-writer and co-director of the Academy Award-nominated 2013 documentary “Finding Vivian Maier,” said the gift may help boost the artist’s stature.

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 ...

Vivian Maier was a disappearance artist. Street photographers typically keep hidden when shooting, but Maier receded in every aspect of her life. Her now well-known story, ...

Vivian Maier’s massive collection of street photography remained hidden from the public eye until a Chicago realtor named John Maloof stumbled across boxes of her negatives at an auction house ...

- African-American Man on Horse NYC still from John Maloof and Charlie Siskelâ s FINDING VIVIAN MAIER.ÂVivian Maier/Maloof Collection Man being dragged by cops at night still from John Maloof ...

In an unsmiling self-portrait (long before the selfie), she gazes into a mirror, hands on hips, as if daring it to blink. The photographer is Vivian Maier, and her expression seems appropriate for ...

Vivian Maier took more than 150,000 photographs as she scoured the streets of New York and Chicago. She rarely looked at them; often, she didn’t even develop the negatives. Without any formal ...