Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife

by Pamela Bannos

Book Overview

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no surviving relatives. Soon the whole world knew about her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647075X
• ISBN13: 9780226470757
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"