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(via What the nanny saw: Housekeeper’s stunning images of 1950s Chicago show working class America in a new light)

To the outside world Vivian Maier was just a nanny and housekeeper working in Chicago. But she also had a hidden talent was not recognised until after her death in 2009.

Maier spent her life wandering the streets of Chicago with a Rolleflex camera strapped to her neck taking remarkable black and white pictures of a different side of the city, and a different side of life in America.

These are beautiful.

Incredible find.