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The amazing photographs of Vivian Maier exposed in Buenos Aires

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Latin American Fototeca (Blood) Opens Wednesday 15 a striking exhibition of the photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), a woman who worked as a nanny and his death, occurred in poverty, left 150.000 without revealing photographs of surprising beauty.

In the exhibition space of Palermo gather a total of 55 Photographs, taken in years 50 Y 60 in Chicago and New York, from the collection of John Maloof, the young antiquarian who bought, haphazardly, a batch that included thousands of negatives without revealing this hidden talent.

It was the year 2007 Maloof and was preparing a book about Chicago neighborhoods the years 50, and finding those images gave, almost by accident, with the immense, and practically without revealing, Images of women without family or descendants, who babysat and whom little is known of his life, except his compulsion to keep and photographing.

The young John Maloof spent two years trying to contact their negative Maier -compró 2007 and she died in 2009- although he did not succeed. Since then, he devoted himself to organize his photographic archive and disseminate his legacy. further, He carried out the documentary "Finding Vivian Maier", film was nominated for an Oscar in 2014 and fervently recommended La Vereda.

The sample, with the cooperation and supervision of John Howard Greenberg Gallery Maloof and in the United States, It will be open to the 11 of June, in the space of Godoy Cruz 2626 (CABA), Monday through Sunday 12 a 20 (wednesday).

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