The incredible story of Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny who was a secret hoarder and street life photographer only came to light fifteen years or so ago after she defaulted on some storage lockers and her boxed belongings went to auction. They contained extraordinary treasures: prints, negatives, and undeveloped film comprising over 140,000 images. Maier died in 2009. Since then, largely due to the efforts of John Maloof, one of the buyers of those boxes, she has been posthumously and deservedly catapulted to fame through exhibitions, documentary films and books. Beautifully, meticulously  composed, often filled with shadows and reflections, framed by buildings and doorways, her images range from lonely figures seen from behind to self-portraits taken in mirrors, from scowling children to laughing oldies, a girl in a high heel and twirling skirt here, an old man in a ratty old overcoat there. Words don’t do justice to her pictures, but this new compendium, which serves as a wonderful one volume retrospective, does.