Vivian Maier was a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide - from France to New York City, to Chicago and dozens of other countries - and yet showed the results to no one.

An amateur street photographer, Vivian Maier worked for forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During these years she took over 100,000 pictures, primarily of people and cityscapes, but never shared them with anyone.