This is about the sum total of what is known about her life, aside from her trips to and from France with her family, and her travels between Chicago and New York. Maier was born in 1926 in New York and worked most of her adult life in Chicago as a nanny. In a sense, she embodies the paragon of a street photographer: anonymous while she lived, and gone before anyone could catch up to her. The photos in Vivian Maier’s The Color Work were collected without her knowledge and published after her death. A street photographer’s prerogative is vastly different from that of most other genre artists: She must above all be invisible, and use that physical and figurative inscrutability to her advantage.
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