Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

[eots]

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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/...nseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was/

 

[eots]

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[hjmick]

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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/...nseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was/

Thank you, eots. That was damn interesting, and somehow sad. The photos in the article were fantastic. I look forward to the documentary.

 

[MeadHallPirate]

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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/...nseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was/

ahoy Eots,

a good post matey, and i liked the images.

2 1/4 twin lense - always beautiful stuffs in that format.

this be why i think folks should take images, daily, fer our lives be magnificent things. the ordinary be rendered, o'er time, and becomes somethin' fantastic and hard-to-believe as the decades sail by.

i photographed two adults smokin', yesterday, and they felt bad about it...shamed, fer indulgin' in such a habit. i told'm that one day thar children's children would view these same images and see the same things we see, when we view images 'o horse 'n carriage...biplanes...drive in movie theatres and other artifacts from days gone by.

aye.

- MeadHallPirate

 

[editec]

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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/...nseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was/

Yeah I have seen part of this collection online.

Very cool.