Carole Pohn, with her children Jennifer and Andy in 1962 or '63, says photographer Vivian Maier called her "the only civilized person" in the Chicago suburb where they were neighbors. Vivian Maier / ...

The late Vivian Maier, a nanny, is one of the hottest names in photography. Famous for leaving more than 100,000 undeveloped negatives behind in storage, Maier died before her work came to light. Her ...

For decades, North Shore nanny and amateur street photographer Vivian Maier privately captured everyday Chicago life in visceral detail, in the worn faces of men on a park bench, a construction worker ...

Four years ago, Vivian Maier was a literal unknown, a reclusive former nanny whose name had been printed in the paper only when a trio of brothers she used to care for paid to run her obituary in the ...

Vivian Maier obsessively documented the world around her from the 1950s to 1990s. This month, Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found will be published—the largest collection of her work to date. On ...

In 2011, a new art star burst onto the scene. A nanny and a self-taught photographer, Vivian Maier had roamed the streets of New York City and Chicago in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, her pint-sized ...

In her groundbreaking biography “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” Pamela Bannos offers an exhaustively researched and engrossingly written examination of the life and work of the ...

In 2012 Northwestern University photography professor Pamela Bannos got a call from WTTW that sent her down a research rabbit hole from which she’s just emerged, new book in hand. WTTW’s Jay Shefsky ...

A documentary about a photographer can be as two-dimensional as a snapshot itself unless the shutterbug’s life also makes a compelling story. “Finding Vivian Maier,” the story of a Chicago nanny and ...

In the foreword to the newly released book Vivian Maier: The Color Work, renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz describes the best street photographers as those who are skilled in the art of ...

Is an artist's life relevant to her reputation as an artist? Not so much, perhaps, but many of us want the bio anyway, especially when the artist in question is as tantalizingly elusive as Vivian ...

The Cook County public administrator said Tuesday that a proposed settlement in the long-running dispute over the work of amateur street photographer Vivian Maier must stay secret because negotiations ...