Vivian Maier, street photographer and nanny

Jay Shefsky for the Chicago Tonight show at WTTW in Chicago tells the story of Vivian Maier http://www.wttw.com/chicagotonight

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• Vivian Maier
• street
• photography
• photographer
• nanny
• Chicago
• John Maloof

[bantabowen]

I agree, he should benefit from the work he puts in. Thanks to him, she'll have a continued life. He'll be doing all the leg work she chose not do do. What he gains for this is not for us to judge.

[lihulito]

She had never even seen all her work!

,(negatives,negatives ,so many of them,hard to scan them all,

wasnt possible for her to make postives ,wandering if she had any...

thats crazy.

and all shots so perfect..

Street live without photoshop.Respect [*]

[TigerRocket]

I haven't been so deeply moved by someones work in years the way many of Miss Maier's photos have done. Something tells me that for her, recognition was just not necessary. Sometimes a person does what they do simply because they love doing it and that's more than enough. All of the kudos and accolades from others cannot compete with that. I for one am thankful that someone considerate has landed the task of guardianship.

[TigerRocket]

@VoldenArts It's pretty clear that he understands the responsibility and I hope he makes a real good cent off of this. He clearly displays a sense of custodianship for something that's more than just "stuff.". His personal investment of time and effort alone deserves good recompense and genuine respect. Just listen to what he says about it all and think about the fact that the world gets to see it. This man is clearly no miser.

[samuxxn]

i HATE videos with low volumen....

[oldschooljunkie]

Her work is absolutely amazing!!!! This is such a treasure!! This guy who is putting all this work into this should make a whole lot of money with this, those pictures are pricless!

[EnchantedByTheMusic]

Discovered her while researching for photographers for an assignment a couple of months back. I had no idea how amazing her story was!

[muratserincom]

Good

[Gomek2]

Another thing, if that were me, and I didn't have an estate to leave it with, I wouldn't mind someone like him making a few bucks off me, the money wouldn't be of no use to me at that point, and my work wouldn't be stashed away in some leaky basement somewhere. He really needs to delagate a lot of this work to others which stil maintaining the control of the images.

[Gomek2]

@CampFireFilmsInc There's much much worse ways believe me! 

[Gomek2]

@xILLNESS Think about how much of this kind of stuff just gets chucked in the trash when someone dies!!! I'm heard horror story's about letters and journels from people who were in concentration camps for example, or other indenspendable items from the past just thrown away because the kids didn't know or care what it was and just wanted to get rid of all it so they could sell the house or whatever. Very sad, but not in this case thank God.