![]() ![]() "I asked them if they had any of her other stuff and they said, 'John, she was a pack rat. "When I met with those two brothers, I gave them a box of all their childhood photos and negatives," Maloof continues. ![]() So I called up and said, 'I have negatives of a lady called Vivian Maier,' and I was told, 'That was my nanny.' And that completely took me by surprise I would have never guessed that this huge load of negatives, with unbelievable work, taken in dangerous areas, would be done by a nanny. On the phone from Chicago, Maloof recalls, "I got an address and basically I wanted to find out who these people were in the photos, as I kept seeing families. Intrigued, Maloof pursued further, following up a lead on an envelope of negatives. A subsequent search two years later revealed her obituary, but with little information on who she was, or her work as a photographer. Upon first acquiring the negatives, an Internet search came up blank. ![]() He only had a name to go by: Vivian Maier. ![]()
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