I’ve posted about Vivian Maier before, but I had forgotten about her in the interim, and I thought you might have too. So I’m bringing her up again, because she’s worth two posts.
To quote from the site linked above:
Born in New York 1926, Vivian Maier was an American-French photographer who worked as a nanny in Chicago from the mid-1950′s to the 1990′s. In 2007, two years prior to Maier’s death, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof purchased a box filled with 30,000 negatives from an estate sale for $400.
Vivian’s work was never known during her life, but she left behind a body of work of an incredibly high caliber.
The now-published book of her work is absolutely on my “must own” list.