Vivian Maier

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Vivian Maier is the Emily Dickinson of street photography. Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for more than a half-century, and took thousands of brilliant photographs, never sharing them with anyone except, occasionally, for the children in her charge. Some of her negatives were found by chance, when a local real estate agent purchased them at an auction house; now an exhibition of her photography is traveling the world (this summer it's in the U.K.).... Vivian Maier, Art, Vivian Maier Street Photographer, Polaroid Film, Couple Photos, Film, On Twitter, Photographer, Twitter

Vivian Maier is the Emily Dickinson of street photography. Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for more than a half-century, and took thousands of brilliant photographs, never sharing them with anyone except, occasionally, for the children in her charge. Some of her negatives were found by chance, when a local real estate agent purchased them at an auction house; now an exhibition of her photography is traveling the world (this summer it's in the U.K.)....

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Today’s photo challenge is “half and half” so I chose a few pictures cut in the middle. I was spoiled for choice today. Above is a shop keeper having a smoke at her door-step. Berlin steps, outside the Bundestag building. Olafur Eliasson’s installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Reflection of a street off the rooftop of a parked car in Prague. The encounter of two groups of horsemen on “Sword Beach” in Normandy.

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