Vivian Maier, Chicago's Reclusive Photographer

Vivian Maier 1926 - 2009

Chicago Tonight on Photographer Vivian Maier

Just days after her death at the age of 83 the photography of a reclusive Chicago nanny surfaced. Over 100,000 photographs and more still being processed reveal her to be one of the great talents of American photography in the 20th century.

Photograph by Vivian Maier 

posted from the blog, Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work

New Year's Eve at Studio 54

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve at Studio 54, Tod Papageorge, Gelatin silver print, 1978

American born (1940) photographer Tod Papageorge began his career in New York City in the 1960s as a street photographer. Winning both the Guggenheim and NEA fellowships twice his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. 

"This ridiculous-seeming activity of walking along the street and lifting up a little camera is so powerful, so complicated, and so resistant to being mastered. If I had a choice between doing that and sitting in an office somewhere... are you kidding?"  

...Tod Papageorge

 ARTINFO: Interview with Tod Papageorge