♥ photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

source.

i recently watched the most amazing video on the blog, threadbared,

that

i just had to share with you (watch here!) about one of the earliest

and most unknown street style photographers, vivian maier.

it all started in 2007 when 26-year old john maloof bought a box full of negatives

from an auction house thinking that some of the photographs would help with a book

he was working on about the history of chicago's portage park. what he ended up

discovering was a piece of art history: negative upon undeveloped negative

of gorgeous street

photographs shot by

french born-chicago nanny/

amateur photographer, vivian maier.

since then, he has acquired more and more boxes of her work

and has changed his focus from writing about chicago's history to

uncovering this mysterious woman's life in photos. (see more here!)

i am super intrigued and super in love with her pictures!!