Over the last few months we have been developing a brand new website for Vivian Maier. Today we are proud to announce the launch of it!

You can view a lot of her published and unpublished works, learn more about Maier, upcoming exhibitions and for the first time see some of her complete Contact Sheets on a mobile friendly website. That’s right, the new Vivian Maier website is responsive, it adjusts itself to the browser size on your desktop computer, tablet and on your smartphone. We hope you enjoy the new site and are looking forward to getting your input and suggestions! Please email admin@vivianmaier.com with questions and feedback.

Just returned from an inspiring and exciting trip to France and London. We were working on the documentary film piecing together Vivian’s past in the village where she lived while growing up which was remotely tucked away in the French Alps. We had a small exhibition of her work there and we’ve uncovered some very exciting information about Vivian first-hand from the people of the village, which will be in our documentary film, ‘Finding Vivian Maier‘.

We were directed to the home Vivian lived in and owned at one point in her life. The home was vacant so we explored the rooms where Vivian stayed over 50 years ago. It was a surreal experience to be in her home and to be following her footsteps quite literally.

While in London, we celebrated the opening day of the Vivian Maier exhibit at Kings Cross for the London Street Photography Festival, which was tastefully executed and bustling with people. Following, I did a talk about Vivian and my discovery at the National Portrait Gallery in London. All in all, it was a fruitful trip and I can’t wait to share what we’ve uncovered.

John Maloof

We just added 20 new Self Portraits of Vivian Maier to the Self Portrait Portfolio. We hope you enjoy them! Otherwise we are busy working on the upcoming book, the Vivian Maier documentary, preparing the Howard Greenberg gallery show in New York this winter and a few other public exhibitions in Europe. Stay tuned for more to come.

Chicago, 1956

A brief explanation for all of you enjoying our new Vivian Maier website who were wondering why we have two portfolios up of Vivian’s work from New York City, and only one half their size from Chicago.

The answer is actually pretty simple. Although Vivian did live most of her life in “Chicagoland”, as locals refer to the Chicago Metropolitan Area, this was only after Vivian spent five years photographing New York City. We know this thanks to the research that Tony Rydzon and I have been collaboratively working on over the past year. Much of Vivian’s work has yet to be scanned and archived, with a substantial portion still waiting to be developed. The result is that, at this point, we’re still heavily weighted towards the earliest period of Vivian’s works shot in the US. So stay tuned, because more is yet to come!

Vivian Maier Website

With all the buzz over Vivian Maier, it’s about time that her work got a more distinguished presentation online than a simple blogspot page. We hope everybody enjoys it. Feel free to contact us with feedback.

Thanks as well to Daniel Pogorzelski of Forgotten Chicago and Anthony Rydzon for helping put together the text and the research for the website.

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