street photographer

the  amazing story of Vivian Maier who took about 100,000 photographs, during her life, and she remained
completely unknown, as photografer, until her death.

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"For a brief period in the 1970s, Maier worked as a nanny. As she got older, she collected more boxes of belongings,
taking them with her to each new post. At one employer's house, she stored 200 boxes of materials. 
Most were photographs or negatives, but Maier collected other objects, such as newspapers, and sometimes recorded 
audiotapes of conversations she had with people she photographed.

Toward the end of her life, Maier may have been homeless for some time. She lived on Social Security and may have 
had another source of income, but the children she had taken care of in the early 1950s bought her an apartment in the 
Rogers Park area of Chicago and paid her bills. In 2008, she slipped on ice and hit her head. 
She did not fully recover and died in 2009, at 83." 

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excerpt from the Wikipedia article about Vivian Maier