![]() ![]() ![]() She collected vast quantities of news clippings and held onto piles of travel tickets, receipts, notes, found objects and trinkets.Īctive primarily on the streets of Chicago and New York, Maier roamed the city and probed the breadth of experience it contained. In her lifetime, she made more than 150,000 photographs, as well as Super 8 and 16mm films, prints, and audio recordings. The man sleeps through it all, seemingly removed from the clamor of modernity - and oblivious to the woman taking his picture: Vivian Maier.īorn in 1926, Maier was an extraordinary, prolific – and deeply private – documenter of midcentury America. Around him, cover stories announce the events and entertainments of 1950s America. Hat on head, head in hand, he dozes in his kiosk, framed by stacks of newspaper, comics and magazines. It’s daytime in New York City and the news vendor has fallen asleep. ![]()
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