![]() ![]() ![]() Maier stored her growing number of photographic negatives in storage containers as her reclusive behaviour escalated and she faced increasing financial difficulties. Her work records the shifting climate of 1950s and 1960s America. Maier amassed a significant archive of street photography, while also turning the camera on herself to create self-portraits that play with the nature of photographic representation. Maier was prolific, frequently using a roll of film a day, though she remained secretive about her work, rarely showing it to anyone. Her photographs were taken using a concealed lens to give her work its untempered character. Maier would use her Rolleiflex twin lens camera to capture the lives of people – portraits of distinctive individuals, urban structures, children at play were her most consistent subjects. Vivian Maier worked as a nanny and pursued photography in her spare time, focusing on the streets of central Chicago and New York as her subject. ![]()
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