Excerpt from New York Times article by Arthur Lubow:
Vivian Maier was a disappearance artist. Street photographers typically keep hidden when shooting, but Maier receded in every aspect of her life. Her now well-known story, which has contributed greatly to her posthumous fame, is that while she supported herself through employment as a nanny, her true vocation was photography. She worked primarily in black-and-white with a square-format Rolleiflex, the same camera used by many of the greats, including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Bill Brandt...
Again and again, Maier captures a compelling detail, an unusual face, a scene of striking visual interest. She also has a flair for composition. But does that mean, as the wall label proclaims, that she “belongs alongside some of the greatest names in photographic history, such as Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, and Henri Cartier-Bresson"?
