♥ what was lost is found.

while netflix is great for binge-watching shows like  fuller house (for me- don't judge!) and 

thomas the train (for henry!) there are also great documentaries available,

 such as finding vivian maier (2013). 

for those who didn't catch my original post about this mysterious lady,

vivian maier was a nanny to many families- a solitary woman who kept to herself,

collected stacks of newspapers and letters and took hundreds and hundreds and

thousands of photographs that she never printed or made public or shared

with any other living soul. 

she died, and her prolific life's work was discovered years later by chicago collector,

 john maloof, who bid on her storage bins full of negatives and found that there

was a remarkable amount of beauty that should be shared with the world.

he then went on to find more of her work, to put it online, to seek out spaces to

exhibit the work, and in this documentary, he learns more and more

about this brilliant talent, who went unnoticed through life but

saw so much.

for miss maier's photographs capture a moment of beauty in the ugliness of the world, 

in the strange and the sad as well as the glamour in the everyday. they speak of the times that
she lived in and the personalities of the people with whom she came into contact, and though it is questionable in the documentary whether or not vivian maier would have wanted her private works

to be shared in such a public way, it is undeniable that the breadth of her talent should and must be appreciated for all of time and for that, i think, she would be grateful.