A compelling glimpse into the work of a master of street photography, this monograph captures both the intimacy of Maier’s ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 2007, the art scholar John Maloof was digging through piles of boxes during a foreclosure action in Chicago, looking for potential material for a book. What he found was much more than that—a trove ...

Pamela Bannos says of posthumous photographic sensation Vivian Maier: "The purpose of my book is to give her story back to her. Vivian Maier is one of the new millennium’s biggest art stories. The ...

In 2012 Northwestern University photography professor Pamela Bannos got a call from WTTW that sent her down a research rabbit hole from which she’s just emerged, new book in hand. WTTW’s Jay Shefsky ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. All books are on sale Tuesday. 1. “Call Us What We Carry,” by ...

In her groundbreaking biography “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” Pamela Bannos offers an exhaustively researched and engrossingly written examination of the life and work of the ...

In 2007, Jeff Maloof bid on a box of negatives that he never ended up using for a book on his Chicago neighborhood. Two years later, he developed the shoved-away negatives out of pure curiosity and ...

Diane Arbus said, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” The odyssey of Vivian Maier is proving to be further proof of this. Discovered accidentally in ...

There are thousands of previously unseen pictures taken and printed by Vivian Maier in the new donation made to the University of Chicago Library. Yes, they are new images from the Chicago-area nanny ...

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this ...