![]() ![]() ![]() Thus her story, as patiently and lucidly detailed by Pamela Bannos in her nearly forensic biography-which unties many knots and brings order to what was previously a chaotic welter of information and misinformation-moves along two timelines at once, before and after death, both of them labyrinthine and marked by passages of seemingly permanent obscurity. She has attained that rarefied position by virtue of her talent, to be sure, but also because of the romance of serendipity as well as the singular opportunities afforded by the internet to certain kinds of beaverish promoters. Instead she has been propelled to posthumous fame, and fortune by proxy. ![]() Had her end come even a decade earlier, it is quite likely that her photographs would have been destroyed and her name relegated to a mere census entry and a dim memory in very few minds. We know about her work only by chance, and through cultural and economic circumstances specific to the early twenty-first century. ![]() Vivian Maier was an ambitious and prolific photographer who conducted her work in the open but kept its results almost entirely to herself. ![]()
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