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          Vivian Maier – the secret street photographer

           

          A self-portrait, New York, 5 May 1955 © Estate of Vivian Maier, courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY 

          Who was Vivian Maier?

          Born in New York City in 1926, Maier was of French and Austro-Hungarian descent.

          She grew up between Europe and the United States, not through a life of wealth, but because, with her father no longer on the scene, her mother, who was in domestic service, went where there was work. All her life Maier was an outsider and a loner.

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          With no family contact nor evidence of relationships, she worked as a nanny in Chicago, where she settled from 1956. 

          A reclusive woman with a propensity to hoard, Maier was elegant, proud, feisty and, above all, private.

          Yet she was fascinated by people and society – and she had a remarkable gift. From her early 20s onwards she quietly captured life on the streets with her camera. Those shots, over 140,000 of them, form