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Ann Marks has spent several years assembling an extensive biography of street photographer icon Vivian Maier and her personal life.

In 2007, an auction house in Chicago sold off a number of items reclaimed from unpaid debts. Among them were more than 14,000 pictures, all taken by one person, most undeveloped.

In 2007, writer and director John Maloof bought a box of photograph negatives at auction for roughly $400. He was hoping to find photos for a book about his Northwest Chicago neighborhood. He ended up with a trove of negatives, prints and undeveloped rolls shot by a former local nanny named Vivian Maier. Over the next few years, working with another collector, Jeff Goldstein, he compiled a comprehensive archive of Maier's work, introduced it to the art world and produced the 2014 Academy Award-nominated documentary "Finding Vivian Maier." After the release of the film, Maier -- ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In private correspondence, Tony McLean re-quoted something quoted in a forum by Andrew Rodney: "You can do all sorts of things that are fiendishly clever, then fall in love with them because they're fiendishly clever, while overlooking the fact that...