100,000 negatives, and rolls and rolls of undeveloped film, left in a storage locker with back rent due, were auctioned in 2007.
The photographer was Vivian Maier, and her street scenes are lovely. What I cannot understand is how someone takes photos and never has them developed over her lifetime.
And it seems it was some kind of life, between New York and France and Chicago, working in a sweatshop, working as a nanny. One of the children remembers her as a socialist feminist who learned English by watching films and wore men's clothing most of the time. And she was always taking pictures.
In the winter of 2008, she slipped on some ice and never recovered. She was 83.
One of the people who purchased some of these treasures from that storage auction has been keeping a blog and will be coming out with a book of some of her photographs: Click here to see.
Here is another collection to scroll through.
And another.
I have the strongest urge to run outside in the rain tonight and just start photographing random people in the neighborhood now.
That's not weird . . . right?
The photographer was Vivian Maier, and her street scenes are lovely. What I cannot understand is how someone takes photos and never has them developed over her lifetime.
And it seems it was some kind of life, between New York and France and Chicago, working in a sweatshop, working as a nanny. One of the children remembers her as a socialist feminist who learned English by watching films and wore men's clothing most of the time. And she was always taking pictures.
In the winter of 2008, she slipped on some ice and never recovered. She was 83.
One of the people who purchased some of these treasures from that storage auction has been keeping a blog and will be coming out with a book of some of her photographs: Click here to see.
Here is another collection to scroll through.
And another.
I have the strongest urge to run outside in the rain tonight and just start photographing random people in the neighborhood now.
That's not weird . . . right?
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