![]() ![]() Maloof managed to track down more work by the same hand – eventually amassing an archive of up to 100,000 negatives and some 3,000 prints, plus box upon box of film rolls, audio interviews, receipts, letters and countless personal effects. ![]() Not only had none of these images been seen before, no one had a clue who had taken them. Sorting through them, he realised he’d stumbled across something astonishing: charismatic, crisply composed pictures of the city in the 1950s and 60s, which ranked with the best US street photographs of the period. In 2007, a Chicago history buff named John Maloof bought a box full of negatives on a whim at auction for $400. ![]() It was the kind of discovery that curators dream about during slow days at the museum. ![]()
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