Mostly unknown to the public during her lifetime, Vivian Maier has since been described as one of the most important photographic artists of the twentieth century. Her collection of prints and negatives was discovered and acquired by John Maloof at a Chicago auction house in 2007. A solo show of her work has just opened at KP Projects in Los Angeles, entitled Living Color. In the words of famed photographer Joel Meyerowitz, she captured “a quick study of human nature, of the unfolding moment, the flash of a gesture, or the mood of a facial expression—brief events that turned the quotidian life of the street into a revelation for her.”
