Vivian Maier by Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier was a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide - from France to New York City, to Chicago and dozens of other countries - and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America's post-war golden age. It wasn't until realtor and amateur historian John Maloof stumbled upon a box of anonymous negatives that her work was revealed to critical acclaim.There is still a lot of mystery surrounding Vivian Maier's existence. She was born in New York in 1926 and worked as a nanny for a family on Chicago's North Shore in the 1950s and 1960s, according to what is known. Despite the fact that she didn't appear to have a family of her own, the children she looked after eventually became Maier's caretakers in her latter years. In her lifetime, she took hundreds of thousands of images but never shared them with anyone. When Maier's storage container was auctioned for non-payment, she lost all of her artwork. At the age of 83, she died in 2009.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781576875773 |
| ISBN 10 | 1576875776 |
| Title | Vivian Maier |
| Author | Vivian Maier |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | powerHouse Books,U.S. |
| Year published | 2011-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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