The Legendary Photographer Who Almost Never Was: The Story Of Vivian Maier

In late 2007, a real estate agent from Chicago named John Maloof bought a box of film negatives, sight unseen, at auction for $380. The negatives, which numbered some 100,000, had been abandoned in a storage locker years ago and eventually made it to the auction house. That might seem like a strange purchase, but Maloof's hobby was history, so he decided to have the photos developed to see what, if any, information or stories he could find on them. And he found much, much more than he ever dreamed. 

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