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 ...

Vivian Maier is one of the new millennium’s biggest art stories. The story goes that Maier was an odd, secretive, reclusive nanny who took thousands of photos that she never made public. A man named ...

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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 ...

In her groundbreaking biography “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” Pamela Bannos examines the life and work of an American photographer whose images of life in the 20th century have ...

Vivian Maier took a lot of self-portraits, but for whom? Albert Mobilio once described her as “her own unwilling subject.” She appears to have liked incorporating mirrors — and the photographer in the ...

Don Gonyea speaks with author Ann Marks about her biography documenting Vivian Maier's life as a street photographer who didn't gain notoriety until she after she died in 2009. Vivian Maier is ...

She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows. By Arthur Lubow It was not a picture-perfect ending for the ambitious ...

For John Maloof, flea markets and estate auctions were a part of the culture he was raised with. It was still a surprise, though, when he opened up luggage from the estate of a Ms. Vivian Maier to ...

The first 20-odd seconds of John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s “Finding Vivian Maier” feature a number of middle-aged and elderly interviewees in their homes staring bemusedly into the camera. The ...