He began printing and promoting her work to wide acclaim, which led to a documentary titled, Finding Vivian Maier. John Maloof, a history buff looking for vintage photos to illustrate a book about his Chicago neighborhood, paid $380 for a box of Maiers negatives, fell in love with her work, and bought nearly everything shed left behind. It really galvanized the photography world because you had this great photographer who just literally came out of nowhere, and then it eventually just wrapped into like the biggest fiasco and bummer that you could imagine, Harrington said. Maiers work including more than 100,000 negatives and 2,700 rolls of film was discovered in rented storage lockers and auctioned off. The children she once cared for saved her from homelessness by paying for her lodging and looked after her as she aged. Maier, a self-taught photographer, was a recluse remembered by only a few friends and the families for whom she had long worked as a nanny. Griffith, with the Chicago law firm of Marshall, Gerstein Borun, said in an e-mail Tuesday at that the estate is pleased to have reached a settlement with the Mpls Photo Center, but has no further comment on the matter or its resolution. The estate filed lawsuits in at least seven federal jurisdictions in five states. I never dreamt that it could impact me, personally, Harrington said. He believes the Rutchicks had indemnified him against any lawsuits when they sold him the business. Jeffrey Harrington, who the bought the Mpls Photo Center from Orin and Abby Rutchick in November 2015, said the lawsuit was unfair.
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