‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer – The New York Times

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‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer

Ann Marks’s biography is a fascinating overview of the “photographer nanny” whose work has kept critics, lawyers and scholars busy since it was discovered after her death in 2009.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/review-vivian-maier-developed-ann-marks.html

If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier, the so-called photographer nanny whose vast trove of images was discovered piecemeal and not fully processed, in all senses of the word, after her death at 83 in 2009, just as the iPhone was going wide.