It's no wonder "paradoxical" is the first word uttered in the documentary Finding Vivian Maier to describe its elusive and mysterious subject. Vivian Maier made her living as a nanny for upper ...

LOS ANGELES -- One of the men behind the Oscar nominated documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" is Charlie Siskel, the nephew of well-known movie critic the late Gene Siskel. This movie exposes audiences ...

Friday, July 28Finding Vivian Maier at the Mennello Museum of American Art You can look at Finding Vivian Maier as a primer on copyright law, or as a poetic meditation on life and art. What you can’t ...

In 2009, after Chicago historian John Maloof published remarkable photos he’d bought at a storage facility’s auction, mythology quickly developed about Vivian Maier, the unknown photographer. An ...

In 2007, Jeff Maloof bid on a box of negatives that he never ended up using for a book on his Chicago neighborhood. Two years later, he developed the shoved-away negatives out of pure curiosity and ...

In 2007, John Maloof — one of those industrious people who trolls flea markets and public auctions looking to scavenge treasures — paid $380 for a bin that contained hundreds of negatives. A cursory ...

In 2007, a Chicago man named John Maloof bought a box of photo negatives at an auction house for a couple of hundred dollars. The box turned out to be a cache of incredible street photographs from an ...