She was born in New York, on February 1, 1926. But when she was 25 year-old, she moved to Chicago, where she worked as a nanny for the next 40 years of her life.
She worked for two different families the Gensburgs and the Raymonds. In her free time, she went to Chicago's streets and took photographs of the people and architecture , with a Rolleiflex camera.
In 1959 and 1960, Maier took a trip on her own, photographing different places like Los Angeles, Beijing, India and Italy.
She took more than 150000 photographs, and she had many boxes of her materials.
Two years before her death, she didn't pay her storage space she rented on Chicago's North Side. so her negatives, photographs and all of her work, were auctioned.
Three photo collectors bought parts of her work: John Maloof, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow.
Her work was known on the internet, because of these collectors, and it has been in gallery exhibitions, several books, and two documentary films.
I like her, because her photographs are really special, and she could capture the people on her images. Her photographs, also show the history in the streets and the city, in a very beautiful way. And she is a real discovery in the area of photography.
Besides, I think that her life was one of the kind, because she didn't care about the fame or the money, she only wanted to take photographs.
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