薇薇安·梅耶(Vivian Maier),一个毕生在芝加哥富人区做保姆的女人,她去世之后,她所拍摄的大量照片才为世人所关注。2007年,芝加哥一个民用仓库拍卖拖欠费用者所存的物品,其中有一批装满了底片、未冲洗胶片的箱子,在几场拍卖会中分别被不同的人买走。其中有一位房产经纪人,约翰·马洛夫(John Maloof),以380美元买下了一个没有标记的箱子,其中有三万多张底片。他发现它们记录了芝加哥街头巷尾的许多人与事,而这些照片的规模、质量、时间跨度令人震撼。 Vivian Maier, a woman who worked as a nanny for a lifetime in the affluent Chicago area, took a lot of photos of her after the death of the world. In 2007, a civilian warehouse in Chicago auctioned items owed to consumers, including a number of boxes filled with negative and unprocessed films, which were bought by different people at several auctions. Among them was a real estate agent, John Maloof, who bought an unmarked box for $ 380, of which over 30,000 were negatives. He found that they recorded many people and things in the streets of Chicago, and the size, quality, and time span of these photos were stunning.