Well, I apparently completely missed the media frenzy a couple of years ago about Vivian Maier. Just came across a reference to her on a friend's Facebook page.
Maier was an American street photographer who grew up in France and then spent 40 years working on and off as a nanny in Chicago where she took tens of thousands of photographs with her Rolleiflex camera. El Pais has a small sampling here.
Apparently she never showed anyone her photographs, and didn't even develop a lot of them, but now they have been discovered, after her death, they are attracting critical acclaim. More information, as usual, in Wikipedia.
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