Vivian Maier Street Photographer

You’ve probably never heard of her, and maybe you never would of if you hadn’t read this blog. Who was she? Well her working life was spent as a Nanny to various families in the USA. In her spare time however she was a prolific street photographer. The reason hardly anyone, until recently, has never heard of her is because she didn’t show anyone her photo’s! A few years ago a storage locker was repossessed and inside it they found boxes and boxes of negatives. These were put up for auction and one guy bought one of the boxes for $400. Inside he found 30,000 negatives. He scanned a load of them and then decided to try and contact other people who had bought boxes of negatives and buy them from those people as well He now has around 100,000 negatives and a lot of those are still on the rolls undeveloped! The video I’ve posted above is an interview with the person who bought the box. If you want to see more of the pictures or see more videos (including videos of the pictures in the form of a slideshow) then just follow this link which is a YouTube search for her name. It’s worth sitting and looking through the ones of her pictures as she took some amazing shots. It’s sad that in 2008 she slipped on some ice, hit her head and died a few months later. She was in her 80’s.