Inspiration

Earlier in the week I was turned on to the story of Vivian Maier, an amazing street photographer from the 1950s-1990s whose work was just recently discovered at an auction in Chicago. Not much is known about Ms. Maier other than the fact that she lived a very private life—spending most of it as a nanny to families in and around Chicago—and that she passed away in 2009 without ever showing a vast majority of her work to anyone. The guy who stumbled upon Ms. Maiers life's work claims he has at least 100,000 mostly medium-format negatives, thousands of prints and boxes upon boxes of unprocessed film roles which he's currently in the process of developing.

It's unbelievable stuff, breathtaking and incredibly inspiring.

So without further ado, he's a small sampling of the work of Vivian Maier.






A self portait.


To see more of Ms. Maier, go here. To watch a news story about her and the story of her work, go here.