The Greatest Street Photographer That Went Undiscovered, Untill Now!

Please note this post was not created by Jay Clapp Photography but by Thomas Ingersoll

What would you say if we were to tell you the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Then in 2007 a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house. He then started to devolope roughly 100,000 negatives of this recluse’s photos to find that he may have discovered what people are calling the greatest street photographer of the 20th century. [more]

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