Vivian Maier worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Vivian Maier as French-American photographer (1926–2009).
Vivian Maier was born at New York City in 1926. Her recorded nationality is France.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
She worked as photographer, wet nurse and nanny.
Her best-known work is Vivian Maier's photograph collection. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Vivian Maier died in 2009, aged 83. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Vivian Maier's photograph collection
