1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1926–2009 · UNITED STATES
Vivian Maier
Unseen-for-decades street photography of Chicago and New York.
- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 2009
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 2011Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
- 2013Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
WHY THEY MATTER
Her rediscovered archive has been exhibited worldwide; Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Academy Award.
THE LIFE
Maier worked as a nanny and carer on Chicago's North Shore for about forty years and photographed the streets in her free time. She took more than 150,000 photographs and showed them to almost no one. Collectors, among them John Maloof, acquired her negatives in 2007, and they have since been exhibited around the world. The documentary Finding Vivian Maier was nominated for an Academy Award.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Rolleiflex, Leica
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