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Nov 11, 2017andreajesse rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fascinating! This movie has everything I love - great photography, great story-telling, eccentricity, and a film-maker obsessed with uncovering the mystery of an amazingly talented and complex woman. Photography is easily my favorite art medium. I, like Vivian, compulsively take photographs. Unlike Vivian, I don't keep my photographs hidden from the world, nor are they so completely captivating. Mild-mannered John Maloof grew up going to flea markets and then going to auctions to buy boxes of mystery items. He stumbled across a box of negatives. All he knew was that a Vivian Maier had taken the pictures that he later developed. But, who was this woman and why hadn't anyone seen these stunning photographs? Maloof works tirelessly to scan negatives, make prints and find and interview people from Maier's life. She was a nanny. She took the kids out on adventures in the streets of New York and Chicago where she captured humanity as it presented itself to her. Maloof doesn't sugar-coat anything as he discovers things about Miss Maier that are hard to hear. Thank heaven it was Maloof who found Maier's work and that he has gone the distance in giving it the attention that it deserves.