![]() ![]() In the census that year, the head of the household was listed as award-winning portrait photographer Jeanne Bertrand, who knew the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her father seems to have left the family for unknown reasons by 1930. and France several times during her childhood, although where in France she lived is unknown. Initial impressions about her life indicated that she was born in France, but further researching revealed that she was born in New York, the daughter of Maria Jaussaud and Charles Maier, French and Austrian respectively. Many of the details of Maier's life are still being uncovered. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011. Her photographs have been exhibited in the US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. Following Maier's death, her work began to receive critical acclaim. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, in 2007. During those years, she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide. ![]() After returning to the United States, she worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago, IL. Vivian Dorothea Maier was an American amateur street photographer, who was born in New York City but grew up in France. ![]()
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