Vivian Maier: A life's lost work seen for first time (BBC) {fascinating story!}

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By Katie Beck
BBC World News America

The photographs reveal teeming streets, children at play in an alley, couples captured in a sleepy embrace, the intricate latticework of an elevated train platform, a drunk smeared in filth.

The arresting, artfully framed scenes from the streets and byways of New York, Chicago and beyond seem alive with movement. And for years, they were probably seen by no-one but the solitary Chicago nanny and amateur photographer who shot them.

But now, two years after her death in a nursing home, Vivian Maier is finally being recognised for her talent after a lifetime of obscurity.

Her life's work, hundreds of thousands of black and white and colour photographs, was locked away in an abandoned storage unit, only to be revealed to the world after her death.

Maier was born in New York City in 1926, but many details of her life remain a mystery.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12247395

blog: http://www.vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

[Arctic Dave]

1. Amazing. I wish I could rec this post more.

[Alameda]

2. Yes, her work is amazing!!!

I think it's interesting that now after all these years and her death, at last she is being taken seriously. Too many women artists were given the shaft.

[KittyWampus]

3. Thanks so much for posting. This is why I still visit DU! The story at the link is fascinating.

And really worthwhile, IMO.