Author Richard Cahan Presenting Photos by Vivian Maier at Re-invent Gallery

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he superbly gifted writing and photo restoration duo, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, bring out their second Maier book, following the revelatory Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows (2012). Here they publish for the first time 100 pristine and electrifying portraits of strangers the rapturously observant Maier encountered by chance and swiftly connected with eye-to-eye. Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story--thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction--has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully through the photographs she took only for herself. This new collection offers readers a chance to follow Maier as she travels the world, including images of France, Italy, Malaysia, Yemen, Puerto Rico, and America. These eye-to-eye portraits, published for the first time, are the single constant in her lifetime of photographic work. Maier is often cast as a quirky, antisocial character, moving on the outskirts of real connection. But these photographs show something more. There will be a book signing with books provided by Lake Forest Book Store