Vivian Dorothy Maier: The Unseen Eye of a City The story of Vivian Maier is, in many ways, the most remarkable rediscovery in the history of 20th-century photography. For decades, her extraordinary talent remained hidden, locked away in storage lockers and largely unknown to the world. Born in New York City in 1926, into a family with roots in France and Austria, Maier’s life unfolded as a quiet journey through America, punctuated by periods of movement and ultimately culminating in a vast archive of images that now challenge our understanding of artistic recognition and the power of observa…