Vivian Maier is considered one of the nation's greatest ... to walk away from her family and never look back. GONYEA: As a young woman, Maier made a living as a nanny, working first in New York ...

Shortly afterward, Maier’s parents split up. Her father left, and her mother shrugged off the task of parenting, leaving young Vivian to be raised largely by others. “I was shuffled around a ...

Yet, she seemed to appreciate beauty, too: a young brunette with cat-eye makeup holding a fluffy black cat; Lena Horne, radiant in pearls; all manner of couples holding hands. “Vivian Maier had ...

“Vivian Maier the mystery, the discovery ... She started capturing street scenes in the city as a young woman in the 1950s, first borrowing her mother’s Kodak Brownie box camera and then ...

(Maier is thought to have been deeply suspicious of men, as a general rule; she warned her young charges against ... turned-artist whose film “Finding Vivian Maier” was nominated for an ...

In the case of Vivian Maier, the photographer was a secret ... But her real work was roaming the streets with her camera (often with her young charges in tow), capturing images of sublime ...

A self-portrait of Vivian Maier from 1953 © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY For decades, Vivian Maier wandered ...

Seeing Through Vivian Maier’s Eyes: The Vivian Maier Research ... best to begin with a few basic structural levels. In 2007, a young auction hunter named John Maloof plunked down $400 for ...

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE measure of Vivian Maier’s photos without taking stock of her story. She was by all accounts remarkably private, someone who didn’t always enjoy the company of other ...