Vivian Maier Street Photographer

Thanks to Alumni Jen Allison for sending us this link about a Chicago Nanny Vivian Maier.

On her time off as a nanny Maier photographed the streets of Chicago and the world from the 1950s until she passed away in 2007. Her images were recently purchased by John Maloof at an auction and he started scanning her negatives and processing her shot rolls of film. After posting some of her images to flickr with a question to the flickr community about what to do he received support from many who praised the images and wanted to see more.

Maloof has since started a blog, and a kickstarter campaign to publish a book of her work and produce a documentary.