![]() In 1956, she moved to the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, where a family employed her as a nanny for their three boys. In 1951, she returned from France alone and purchased a Rolleiflex camera the following year. Sometime in 1949, while still in France, Maier began making her first photographs with a modest Kodak Brownie– an amateur camera with only one shutter speed, no focus control, and no aperture dial. While her photographs have compelled viewers around the world since being brought to the public eye there is much that remains unknown about the enigmatic woman behind the lens. ![]() Consistently taking photographs over the course of five decades, she would ultimately leave behind over 100,000 negatives. In her leisure, however, Maier ventured into the art of photography. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life. ![]() Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. ![]()
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