Vivian Maier: The Secret Shutterbug

Vivian Maier / Maloof Collection

Self Portrait, 1953
For most of her life, Vivian Maier, a French-born woman living in Chicago, used her days off (from being a nanny, it seems) to make pictures on the streets of her city and other cities that she visited.

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