Until January 16, 2022, the Musée du Luxembourg, in Paris, offers a major retrospective of the photographer Vivian Maier. The artist, born in New York in 1926 to an Austro-Hungarian father and a French mother, worked as a children’s governess from 1951 onwards, first in New York and then, until the 1990s, in Chicago where she died in the spring of 2009. Her entire life had gone unnoticed, until the 2007 discovery of her photographic corpus: an imposing, dense, luminous and brilliant body of work made up of more than 120,000 photographic images, Super 8 and 16mm films, various recordings, miscellaneous photographs and roll upon roll of undeveloped film – a treasure chest of fascinating finds. This passion of hers, which would become an almost daily activity, has today elevated her to the ranks of the greatest iconic street photographers and earned her a place in history alongside Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand.
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