PAOLA KUDACKI. ‘Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer’ @ Chicago Cultural Center. Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer is the first American exhibition of photographs by Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009). It opens Friday, 7 January at the Chicago Cultural Center and runs until Sunday, 3 April. The enigmatic, private yet outspoken Maier and the great story behind the recent discovery of her work by a former estate agent at an auction house in Chicago has certainly generated a buzz, both within the photography world and beyond. Maier was a Chicago nanny who took more than 100,000 photos during her lifetime but kept them to herself. In 2007, John Maloof purchased at auction a box among the contents of a repossessed storage locker. The Chicago Cultural Center show will feature images Maier shot in the fifties, sixties and seventies. More exhibition preview photos, after the jump. More information about John Maloof’s discovery of Vivian Maier can be found here and here.
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