The first monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier
Photographer Vivian Maier's allure endures even though many details of her life continue to
remain a mystery. Her story?the secretive Chicago nanny whose work was discovered in two
storage lockers up for auction as a result of her failure to pay the rent?has only been pieced
together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced
about her life. Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the largest and most highly curated collection
of Maier's full-color photographs published to date. With a foreword by world-renowned
photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by curator Colin Westerbeck this definitive volume sheds
light on the nature of Maier's color images examining them within the context of her
black-and-white work as well as the images of street photographers with whom she clearly had
kinship like Eugène Atget and Lee Friedlander. With more than 150 color photographs most of
which have never been published in book form this collection of images deepens our
understanding of Maier as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present
her interpretation of the world around her.
