I found this to be a pretty incredible story. Vivian Maier immigrated to the US from France to escape World War II. She became a nanny and worked on Chicago's North Shore for most of her life. On Saturdays, she would take her Roloflex camera, and go shoot scenes on the street. She never shared her photos with anyone. When she died, her personal effects were sold at a furniture auction. Enter a young real estate agent by the name of John Maloof. He was working on a book about his Chicago neighborhood and purchased a box of 30,000 negatives hoping to find something to use for this book. He didn't, but what he did find was perhaps the greatest unknown street photographer from the mid-20th century. Eventually, he was able to collect all the negatives and prints she had left behind and is now in the process of scanning and archiving over 100,000 images.
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