According to the 2021 biography Vivian Maier Developed, by genealogist Ann Marks—which meticulously traces the artist’s life, with help from photo archives in the John Maloof Collection—Maier took up ...

Maier’s name and work first captured the public imagination in 2009, the same year she died in Chicago, after the collector and amateur historian John Maloof shared scans of her work on the ...

Now, the next phase of uncovering Maier’s photographs has arrived at Fotografiska in New York City. Vivian Maier: Unseen Work explores the photographer’s work from the early 1950s to the mid ...

Estate of Vivian Maier, via John Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York The color photographs are mostly less interesting than the black-and-white ones.

In 2007, Chicago resident John Maloof landed on the discovery of a lifetime at a thrift auction house on the city’s Northwest Side. A stunning archive of more than 100,000 negatives by photographer ...

In Her First U.S. Retrospective, Vivian Maier Proves to Be Much More than a Street Photographer At New York’s Fotografiska, the "nanny photographer" gets her greatest showing yet on these shores.

When first time filmmaker John Maloof stumbled upon Vivian Maier ’s mysterious, but gorgeous body of work at auction back in 2009, he did not expect to find himself still sifting through the ...

Maier, who died in 2009, aged 83, was a prolific photographer who took more than 150,000 photographs in her lifetime, primarily of street scenes and architecture in New York, Chicago and Los ...

In one of the boxes, he eventually found an envelope with the name Vivian Maier scrawled on it. He googled her name and found a Chicago Tribune obituary. She had died a few days earlier. She was 83.

In 2007, a young auction hunter named John Maloof plunked down $400 for a hefty box of negatives that had been repossessed from a Chicago storage locker previously owned by an ailing elderly woman.

Since then, Vivian Maier has become one of the most important post-war American photographers, in the wake of like-minded greats such as Robert Frank, Weegee, Helen Levitt and Mary Ellen Mark.