Vivian Maier

The other day on Flickr (where else!), I came across a link to this fascinating blog.

A gentleman in Chicago named John Maloof bought a bulk load of old medium format negatives at a furniture auction which had been taken by a lady named Vivian Maier. After developing a couple, he soon realised he'd found a great archive of street photography from the 1950s-70s. He's been steadily working his way through the 30,000-40,000 negatives and is currently adding selections to the blog. I think I read somewhere that he was looking into creating a book as well at some point.

They cynic in me thinks that the story almost sounds too good/too sad to be true, a bit too Hollywood. But the photos seem genuine enough to my untrained eye! Well worth a look...