Milloin Vivian Maier aloitti valokuvaamisen?
In 1959 and 1960, Maier took a trip around the world on her own, photographing Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing, India, Syria, Egypt, and Italy. The trip was probably financed by the sale of a family farm in Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur. For a brief period in the 1970s, Maier worked as a housekeeper for talk-show host Phil Donahue. She kept her belongings at her employers'; at one, she had 200 boxes of materials. Most were photographs or negatives, but Maier also collected newspapers, in at least one instance, "shoulder-high piles," and sometimes recorded audiotapes of conversations she had with people she photographed. In the documentary films "Finding Vivian Maier" (2013) and "Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures" / "The Vivian Maier Mystery" (2013), interviews with Maier's employers and their children suggest that Maier presented herself to others in multiple ways, with various accents, names, life details, and that with some children, she had been inspiring and positive, while with others she was frightening and abusive.
1959