"Nothing is meant to last forever" is the bitter-sweet sentiment we hear from an old audio-tape recording of Vivian Maier's voice. And nothing could sum up the fleeting beauty of her candid shots more eloquently.
Vivian Maier is a previously undiscovered street photographer who was based in Chicago from the 1950s - 1990s. John Maloof stumbled across her treasure trove of images at an Auction. After falling in love with the images John has taken on the olympian task of archiving her work, which includes over 100,000 negatives, thousands of prints and countless undeveloped rolls of film.
You will find John Maloof's blog here http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com where I am very excited to see that, over the course of scanning her work, John discovered that Vivian traveled the world in 1959. Visiting and photographing places like Egypt, Bangkok, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, France, Italy and Indonesia.
Thank you to my old school friend Karl Argue for posting the video below on Facebook.
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