Photographer, which no one knows Bashny.Net

For information about the woman you're unlikely to find. It is not a famous photographer. During her life, none of her work was not even opublikovana.V 2009 real estate agent John Malofey bought several boxes from the warehouse storage belonging to no one. In these boxes, he found about 100,000 negatives and undeveloped films. When he began to scan them, he caught his breath.

The negatives were turned into great pictures that were taken in 60-70 years. These photographs belonged to Vivian Maier. The next day, John received more than 200 proposals to make a film about her and her life.

On the day of memory of Vivian Maier Website has decided to recall the history of this amazing woman.



Vivian lifetime photographed, but no one showed their work. Otschelkivaya 200 films a year, she showed them to his room, turning it into a photo lab.



She never earned on his passion, moreover, her circle of friends never knew about this passion for photography. It was only after his death, by accident, these shots have become a part of history.





Most of her life she lived in Chicago and worked as a governess in affluent families. In his spare time, Vivian wandering through the streets of the city with a camera. Your photos very well convey the culture of American life in the middle of the last century.













She wore men's trousers, men's shoes and almost always wide-brimmed hat. Remembering what it was, her former students described his nurse: "She was a socialist, feminist film critic, and of that breed of people that always tell the truth in the face, whatever it was».











The life story of photographer puzzles surprises and conquers, forcing to think, it is important to seek the recognition of their works? Perhaps the real art does not need external evaluations, perhaps, all life should be created without the desire to please and go down in history.









Today, experts have work Vivian Maier on a par with well-known street photographers of the 20th century. For a long time it belonged only to her work, in fact, no one can say whether the time to find out Vivian about his success and recognition to death.

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