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Have you heard about Vivian Maier? I just recently read about\u00c2\u00a0this intriguing lady who\u00c2\u00a0worked as a nanny in Chicago in the 1950s until her retirement in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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She loved taking pictures. And the art of photography. Yet she kept her passion hidden from the world.<\/p>\n

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A fellow named John Maloof, who worked in real estate, came across a large trunk\u00c2\u00a0of negatives at a furniture and antique auction. As he poured through the box, he knew there was something special about these negatives.\u00c2\u00a0Images such as these:<\/p>\n

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He started to show them to other people who recognized how special they were as well.<\/p>\n

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The photographer’s name was written\u00c2\u00a0on an envelope tucked away amidst the negatives\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Vivian Maier.<\/p>\n

Mr. Maloof\u00c2\u00a0did an online search only to find there was little-to-no information about her. Eventually he came across her\u00c2\u00a0obituary, which had run only a few days earlier.<\/p>\n

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Her\u00c2\u00a0short obituary that doesn’t sum up all of the 100,000 images this artistic\u00c2\u00a0nanny\u00c2\u00a0left behind.<\/p>\n

Her photos were unique\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsometimes quirky, sometimes artistic. She had an eye for light and for finding unique subjects. She was one of the original “Street Style” photographers (before the term was really coined), capturing candid images of many unsuspecting pedestrians. And then there were the children. Oh\u00c2\u00a0so many photos of children! Perhaps the children she took care of\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich can’t help but make you smile.<\/p>\n

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Maloof talked to some of her former wards, who each described her as mysterious and utterly unique. The press began to describe her as the Mary Poppins of street photography.<\/p>\n

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John is helping bring Vivian’s world to others through a documentary he’s working on right now and a show at Chicago Cultural Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is my favorite one (I photos of babies looking over the shoulder of their mama). It’s amazing that Vivian never showed her work to the public. And yet\u00c2\u00a0she lives on through these photos.<\/p>\n

For more images, check out John Maloof’s blog<\/a> with updated pictures almost every day. \u00c2\u00a0You can also visit Artsy<\/a> to see more of her phenomenal work. Gorgeous.<\/p>\n

You never know where genius lies.<\/p>\n

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PS: Apologies for the smaller and inconsistent imagery size–but I didn’t want to distort the photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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