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RSSWhat if one of the most important street photographers of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone?
Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.
John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. It became clear these were no ordinary street snaps of 1950s & 60s Chicago and New York and so John embarked on a journey to find out who was behind the photographs and soon discovered her name: Vivien Maier.
Come Up To My Place
Alysha Umphress and Jay Armstrong Johnson
Alysha Umphress and Jay Armstrong Johnson sing Come Up To My Place from On The Town on June 13, 2013 at Barrington Stage Company
Elizabeth Stanley, Tony Yazbeck, Alyssa Umphress, Jay Armstrong Johnson and the cast of Barrington Stages’ ON THE TOWN.
Come see this show! I’ve seen it three times; it’s amazing.
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