The Sunday Times Magazine • 27For 40 years Vivian Maier was a nanny in New York and
Chicago, but her private passion was street photography.
Only after her death was her remarkable archive uncovered
The secret
photographer
Left: in August 1960 two men inspect the wares on display in a Chicago shop window
Below: glamorous women wait to cross the street in 1954, draped in furs to keep out the New York winter chill
The Sunday Times Magazine • 27