Carole Pohn, with her children Jennifer and Andy in 1962 or '63, says photographer Vivian Maier called her "the only civilized person" in the Chicago suburb where they were neighbors. Vivian Maier / ...

In 2011, a new art star burst onto the scene. A nanny and a self-taught photographer, Vivian Maier had roamed the streets of New York City and Chicago in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, her pint-sized ...

Maier, who shot more than 200,000 images during her life, is best known for her haunting photographs of midcentury street life in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. She shot with a Rolleiflex that ...

Back in 2007, John Maloof, a Chicago real-estate broker, attended a furniture and antique auction, where he stumbled upon a collection of about 100,000 prints and negatives shot by an unknown ...

Don Gonyea speaks with author Ann Marks about her biography documenting Vivian Maier's life as a street photographer who didn't gain notoriety until she after she died in 2009. Vivian Maier is ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The photographs of Vivian Maier and the story of their accidental discovery stirred up the art world in 2008. Before the discovery of her work, Maier was an unknown ...

Vivian Maier self-portrait from John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s "Finding Vivian Maier." (Credit Vivian Maier courtesy of the Maloof Collection.) African American Man on Horse NYC still from John ...

In 2009, after Chicago historian John Maloof published remarkable photos he’d bought at a storage facility’s auction, mythology quickly developed about Vivian Maier, the unknown photographer. An ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Heritage Auctions Vivian Maier is known for her historic street photography, but the ...

I’ve been reading this new biography of Vivian Maier. “Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny” (Atria, $40), by Ann Marks, a researcher and former chief marketing officer ...

Vivian Maier is considered one of the nation's greatest photographers of the 20th century. But her genius did not come to light until after she died in 2009. That's when the contents of her storage ...