{"id":7038,"date":"2013-04-25T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:48:06","slug":"found-at-auction-the-unseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children\u2019s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later 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 \u2018amateur\u2019 photographer for $380 at his local auction house.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/02\/18\/found-at-auction-the-unseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/02\/18\/found-at-auction-the-unseen-photographs-of-a-legend-that-never-was\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children\u2019s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}