Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found

Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found is John Maloof's fuller 2014 account of the archive he discovered at a Chicago storage-locker auction. It expands well past the black-and-white Chicago-New York street pictures that made Maier's name in his first book.

The volume presents more than 235 photographs, most published here for the first time, including the initial substantial showing of Maier's color work from the 1970s onward alongside her earlier black-and-white negatives. Maloof writes as author, working with text by Marvin Heiferman and an edit by the dealer Howard Greenberg, whose gallery represents Maier's estate. A foreword comes from the novelist Laura Lippman. Reproductions of contact sheets, cameras, and personal effects recovered from Maier's boxes sit alongside the photographs, filling in more of the biography that her first book left largely implicit.

Maier (1926-2009) spent four decades working as a nanny in the Chicago area while photographing constantly and privately. Her archive of over 100,000 negatives only surfaced after her death. Hudson Street Library also holds Maier's Street Photographer (2011), Maloof's first book from the find, and Out of the Shadows (2012), Richard Cahan and Michael Williams's independent, interview-based account of her life.