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Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century
Ellen Wexler
Assistant Editor, Humanities
Vivian Maier took more than 150,000 photographs as she scoured the streets of New York and Chicago.
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She rarely looked at them; often, she didn’t even develop the negatives. Without any formal training, she created a sprawling body of work that demonstrated a wholly original way of looking at the world. Today, she is considered one of the best street photographers of the 20th century.
Maier’s photos provide audiences with a tantalizing peek behind the curtain into a remarkable mind.
But she never intended to have an audience.
Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful.A nanny by trade, she rarely showed anyone her prints. In her final years, she stashed five decades of work in storage lockers, which she eventually stopped paying for. Their contents went to auction in 2007.
Many of Maier’s photos ended up with amateur historian John Maloof, who purchased 30,000