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 ...

Today, the name “Vivian Maier” is far from unknown. People around the world have seen and read about Maier’s photographs, taken in New York, Chicago, and countless other places during the second half ...

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 ...

Finding Vivian Maier, the documentary about the nanny who’s gained incredible posthumous fame for her previously unseen work as a photographer, was released this past weekend in the UK. But in ...

Vivian Maier self-portrait from John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s "Finding Vivian Maier." (Credit Vivian Maier courtesy of the Maloof Collection.) African American Man on Horse NYC still from John ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...