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Vivian Maier

  Vivian Maier: The Nanny Photographer Who Secretly Captured America’s Streets Introduction Vivian Maier (1926–2009) is one of the most astonishing discoveries in 20th-century photography. Unknown during her lifetime, Maier worked as a nanny while privately producing more than 150,000 photographs that would only be discovered after her death. Her incredible archive reveals a street photographer of immense talent — curious, empathetic, bold, and visually sophisticated. Maier roamed the streets of Chicago and New York with a Rolleiflex around her neck, quietly documenting daily life with humor, psychological depth, and poetic timing. Today, she is recognized as one of the greatest street photographers ever to live, her work standing alongside icons such as Robert Frank, Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand. Camera Gear Vivian Maier favored tools that allowed candid observation and compositional focus: Rolleiflex Twin-Lens Reflex (TLR) : Her principal tool. Models included the 3.5T, 3...