This documentary on Netflix is fascinating! A young man, John Maloof, bids on a box of photo negatives at an auction and discovers that they are works by an unknown woman named Vivian Maier--which leads him on a journey to find out who this woman behind the camera had been.
He tracks down people who knew here--not one of whom had ever seen a single picture of hers, though everyone knew that she always had a camera around her neck.
Who was Vivian? Was her French accent a fake one or real? Was she mentally ill? A hoarder? Did she want her pictures to be shown? Maloof later found mounds of suitcases and boxes filled with more photograph negatives, tickets, notes, lists, newspaper clippings, jewelry....
She never married or had children. Eccentric and mysterious, she often refused to tell people her real name. She wore heavy boots and walked the streets with a camera around her neck--which being a nanny gave her plenty of opportunities to do. The little kids, now grown, remember loving and fearing this formidable, scary, mysterious, sometimes-mean, sometimes-playful woman--who would often abandon them to take a picture that called to her from a dark alley.
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