Maier died in 2009 aged 83 and took an astonishing number of pictures during her lifetime - more than 150,000 photos, as well as Super 8 and 16mm films, prints, audio tapes, and reams of undeveloped film - yet her work was only discovered in 2007 when her innumerable negatives were discovered in a Chicago storage locker and sold at auction. But, obviously, there’s so much more to her images and the story of her life and work than this. To make a more simplistic comparison between Maier and Instagram, many of the images currently on show at MK Gallery’s show Vivian Maier: Anthology are framed in neat squares. In some ways, Vivian Maier’s photography prefigured some of today’s most common Instagram tropes: there’s her early experiments with the mirror selfie her subjects are only those things she encountered every day and she was, to all intents and purposes, an amateur.
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