Fate & Destiny perhaps

The story behind these old photographs by Vivian Maier

have captured my beating heart!

~As most of you may know that my blog is rarely so 'heavy' on words,

but today I simply have to share this remarkable story with all of you...

...Born in New York in 1926, Vivian Maier lived in France and then returned to New York in 1951 where she lived for five years. She wandered the streets and snapped pictures wherever she went. Later, she moved to Chicago to work as a nanny for forty years. Continued taking pictures into the late 1990s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives! She did not share her pictures with others and many she never saw herself. She left behind hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film.

...Enter John Maloof, a young eBay entrepreneur and real estate agent. In 2007, after acquiring a box full of Maier's negatives for $400 at a local thrift auction house. Almost by accident! He thought he was purchasing pictures of Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, the then 26-year-old would soon realize that he had stumbled upon something very epic!!! Now 50 years after Maier took her photos, her body of work has gone on to receive critical acclaim and worldwide attention. The photos that were seemingly destined for obscurity, have been given a new lease on life. Just imagine all of this would all have been different if one man didn't happen to discover the negatives by accident! {source*] 

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Such an amazing story, huh? Truly makes me wonder more about fate & destiny! 

Her Photography Book will be on sale this November, and the documentary film 

about Maloof's discovery of her work 'Finding Vivian Maier', will also debut in 2012.

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~XOXO*

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