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On 1 February 1926, Vivian Maier was born.

Living most of her life as an unassuming nanny who worked and lived in Chicago, her passion for street photography was accidentally discovered and recognized after her death.

Taking more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, her body of work subsequently attracted critical acclaim, 'suffused with the kind of human understanding, warmth and playfulness that proves she was "a real shooter".'

#VivianMaier #Photography #StreetPhotography

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[Black-and-white photograph] A self-portrait of Vivian taken with her Rolleiflex medium-format camera in front of a mirror on an inner-city pavement. She is looking straight ahead.

[Black-and-white photograph] In front of the colonnade entrance to the New York Public Library, a young, elegantly dressed woman is looking away from the camera at the presumably busy street.

[Black-and-white photograph] A woman in a white dress and a pagola is walking away from the camera on the pavement at night. Her dress almost glows against the dark background.

[Black-and-white photograph] Two boys, one wearing a Mickey Mouse ears hat, stand together on the pavement, looking curiously at the camera.

IXI

@ixi@mastodon.online · 6 days ago

On 1 February 1926, Vivian Maier was born.

Living most of her life as an unassuming nanny who worked and lived in Chicago, her passion for street photography was accidentally discovered and recognized after her death.

#VivianMaier #Photography #StreetPhotography

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