Vivian Maier – The Self Portrait and its Double

“The discovery of photographer Vivian Maier (1926–2009) is considered one of the greatest sensations in the history of photography after the Second World War. The American artist was completely unknown as an artist until 2007, when real estate agent and amateur historian John Maloof auctioned off several boxes from a storage facility in Chicago, believing they contained historical photographs of the city. To his surprise, he instead came across a previously undiscovered and unexplored photographic treasure. Vivian Maier was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1926, but spent much of her childhood and youth in France. From the early 1950s onward, she worked in the United States as a nanny and began tirelessly photographing life on the streets with a Rolleiflex camera. …”