Send us a text When Vivian Maier died in 2009, she left behind over 100,000 negatives, hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film—and no will. Her belongings were sold off in storage auctions, her photographs scattered, and the county of Cook suddenly found itself the legal guardian of a genius no one knew existed. In this episode, host Teresa Porter unpacks what happens when art becomes evidence, when creativity is reduced to paperwork, and when a system built to handle bank accounts and sofas tr...
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Send us a text When Vivian Maier died in 2009, she left behind over 100,000 negatives, hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film—and no will. Her belongings were sold off in storage auctions, her photographs scattered, and the county of Cook suddenly found itself the legal guardian of a genius no one knew existed. In this episode, host Teresa Porter unpacks what happens when art becomes evidence, when creativity is reduced to paperwork, and when a system built to handle bank accounts and sofas tr...
Vivian Maier: The Discovery That Changed Photography
The Vanishing of Vivian Maier
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Vivian Maier: The Discovery That Changed Photography
Send us a text How a Quiet Nanny’s Forgotten Negatives Redefined a Century of Street Photography She was one of the most gifted photographers of the 20th century—and for most of her life, no one knew it. In this opening episode of The Vanishing of Vivian Maier, host Teresa Porter traces the astonishing discovery of Vivian Maier’s work and the tangled story that followed. When more than 100,000 photographs were found in Maier’s unpaid storage units after her death, the quiet Chicago nanny inst...
The Vanishing of Vivian Maier
Send us a text When Vivian Maier died in 2009, she left behind over 100,000 negatives, hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film—and no will. Her belongings were sold off in storage auctions, her photographs scattered, and the county of Cook suddenly found itself the legal guardian of a genius no one knew existed. In this episode, host Teresa Porter unpacks what happens when art becomes evidence, when creativity is reduced to paperwork, and when a system built to handle bank accounts and sofas tr...
