This was remarkable in a time where color photography was considered to be used only for advertising (or family snapshots), but certainly not as an artform that could be exhibited. Obtaining Maier’s life work in an auction, John Maloof ( made it his life work to archive and catalog for the enjoyment of others and for future generations.Īlthough most of Maier’s work is in black and white, she also shot a lot of color film, both negatives and slides. Photos that were – for the bigger part – only discovered after she was unable to pay for the storage lockers that held her vast collection of color slides, negatives and rolls of undeveloped film in 200, a year before her death. The unbelievable story of the intensely guarded and private nanny Vivian Maier who spent her youth in France, moved to New York and later Chicago and documented the world around her in around 100.000 photos.
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