A box of negatives he purchased for around $400 seemed like the sort of helpful ephemera that would bring the visuals of Chicago in the ’50s and ’60s into focus instead, he found the work of an unknown photographer named Vivian Maier whose photography echoed the stylistic traditions of street photography masters like Weegee, Gary Winogrand, Saul Leiter, and Lisette Model. In 2007, Chicago historian John Maloof was sifting through negatives at an estate sale, on the hunt for appropriate images for his work-in-progress book on the Portage Park neighborhood.
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