John Maloof is a Chicago-based art collector who is best known for bringing the work of unknown American street photographer Vivian Maier to the world in 2007 when he rescued a large collection of her ...

In 2009, after Chicago historian John Maloof published remarkable photos he’d bought at a storage facility’s auction, mythology quickly developed about Vivian Maier, the unknown photographer. An ...

In 2007, a Chicago man named John Maloof bought a box of photo negatives at an auction house for a couple of hundred dollars. The box turned out to be a cache of incredible street photographs from an ...

Newly released photos and personal items once owned by Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny who later gained world renown for her photography, are currently being auctioned. The items, 33 lots consisting ...

In 2007, a Chicago man named John Maloof bought a box of photo negatives at an auction house for a couple of hundred dollars. The box turned out to be a cache of incredible street photographs from an ...

Collector Jeffrey Goldstein has sold the bulk of his Vivian Maier collection to Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery, largely removing himself from the ongoing legal saga surrounding the photographer's ...

Is the work of this previously unknown street photographer, discovered at a Chicago storage unit auction, worth the hype? Absolutely.