20 December, 2011

What the nanny saw: Housekeeper's stunning images of 1950s Chicago show working class America in a new light | Mail Online

What the nanny saw: Housekeeper's stunning images of 1950s Chicago show working class America in a new light | Mail Online: After spending decades collecting dust the work of an unlikely artist has finally been uncovered.

To the outside world Vivian Maier was just a nanny and housekeeper working in Chicago. But she also had a hidden talent was not recognised until after her death in 2009.

Maier spent her life wandering the streets of Chicago with a Rolleflex camera strapped to her neck taking remarkable black and white pictures of a different side of the city, and a different side of life in America.