Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, edited by John Maloof with a foreword by Geoff Dyer, stands as one of the most essential monographs of the past two decades; not only because of the photographs themselves, but because of the extraordinary story behind them.
Vivian Maier spent most of her life working as a nanny, photographing the streets of Chicago and New York with no intention of showing her work, publishing a book, or pursuing a photography career. She photographed out of pure instinct, driven by a private, almost compulsive need to observe and document the world around her.
