About a month ago Andrew's dad told us about an amazing photo exhibit opening in Los Angeles. The photographer, Vivian Maier, was a nanny in Chicago from 1950-1980 who took street photos in her spare time. At an antique auction, thousands of her negatives were bought by John Maloof. Also in the collection were countless rolls of film that had never even been developed. In a nutshell - he stumbled upon some of the greatest photographs of the 20th century! Unfortunately she passed away before realizing that her pictures would touch so many people.
Two weeks ago we planned on seeing the exhibit with Andrew's parents. Unfortunately, I didn't check to make sure the gallery was open on a Sunday - and sure enough they were closed! I felt absolutely awful since we were all looking forward to seeing the photographs together.
A few days ago I found myself driving by the gallery and decided that it was now or never. Thankfully Olive amused herself while I looked at all the work. What's even better than the amazing story is that the photographs are really quite remarkable.
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