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 ...

Vivian Maier might best be described as the Emily Dickinson of American photography. Like the wildly prolific 19th-century American poet, Maier (1926-2009) led a reclusive existence and her work ...

“Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows” Through 9/28: Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections 400 S. State 312-747-4300 chipublib.org “Vivian Maier’s Chicago” Chicago History Museum ...

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.

Vivian Maier is hailed as one of the greatest street photographers of the ... Vivian Maier, “Untitled, Self-Portrait” ... The Instax mini 41 is an update on the four-year-old Instax mini 40, ...

An aptly obsessive study of obsession, “Finding Vivian Maier” sifts through the voluminous work and scant personal details of the titular street photographer, posthumously recognized as a ...

The photographs of Vivian Maier (1926–2009) caused a sensation shortly after they were discovered in an abandoned storage locker in 2007. The story of this North Shore nanny-turned–street ...

Remembering Vivian Maier's famous self portraits, I took the opportunity to shoot my first self-portrait, as opposed to a selfie where you are staring straight into the camera. It was the first of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Even without its dramatic discovery story, the work of Vivian Maier ...

5. “Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny,” by Ann Marks (Atria, nonfiction) What it’s about: A definitive biography of Maier, a nanny who was secretly a ...