A Secret Life - Made Public.

I recently came across a blog post that truly made me stop and wonder. I kept going back to the site and really wanted to understand the woman that the blog was about.
Chicago nanny Vivian Maier died in 2009, leaving behind 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. Her work was discovered by chance, and now the photographs she took on her days off are being hailed as 'ranking up there' with the best in 20th-century street photography. Sure, Maier’s life story is so surprising that it could be a movie. (A Kickstarter-funded documentary is in preproduction.) Born in New York, she spent some of her early life in France. After moving to Chicago in 1956, she worked for decades as a nanny on the North Shore. Her employers remember her as an eccentric loner who was good with kids, according to a story by Nora O’Donnell in the January issue of Chicago. But, as WTTW, The New York Times and countless other media outlets have reported, the nanny led a secret life as a brilliant street photographer.Vivian took photographs over a long period of time, begining in the early fifties right through to the nineties.One of my favourites is of this small child, in my mind she is out about town with her mother and aunt.

You can (and absolutely should) see the extent of what has been archived so far at: VivianMaier.blogspot.com.