An unknown street photographer.

Kickstarter is a sort of poor man’s venture capital fund raising effort. I first came across it when an engineer designed an elegant watch band for the sixth generation iPod Nano, soliciting the required $15,000 in funds to get production off the ground using Kickstarter. I happened to have a Nano lying around so sent the young entrepreneur Scott Wilson $50 for his beautifully designed LunaTik watch band. Scott ended up raising an astonishing $941,718 with each investor getting one of his watch bands when they become available.

Now there’s another thrilling Kickstarter project devoted to showcasing the work of a 1960s Chicago street photographer named Vivian Maier. John Maloof came across some 100,000 (!) of her negatives at an auction and realized he had hit on a treasure trove of great work by this reclusive photographer.

Click the above and you will be taken to the Vivian Maier blog, where you too can subscribe. This is a great way of supporting little known photography which is desperately in need of exposure.

Here’s an example of her work: