"Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier"

Monday, May 18, 7 pm

1st Floor Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Come meet author Richard Cahan as he discusses his latest book Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier. A painfully private woman who lived and worked in Evanston and the North Shore, Maier has become a worldwide phenomenon since her death in 2009 when her powerful photographs were discovered in a storage locker and published online. In Eye to Eye, Cahan offers readers a chance to follow Maier as she travels throughout America and to France, Italy, Malaysia, Yemen and Puerto Rico. Featuring 96 stunning portraits published for the first time, the book captures the electrifying “eye-to-eye” connections Maier made with the strangers on her journeys. Copies of Eye to Eye will be available for purchase courtesy of Bookends & Beginnings. Please register online or by calling 847-448-8620 to guarantee your seat.

Richard Cahan is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books about art, architecture and photography. He worked as a reporter and picture editor for the Chicago Sun-Times, and later directed the CITY 2000 documentary photo project. He is the author of They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel’s Struggle to Save America’s Architecture and co-author with Michael Williams of two books about photographer Vivian Maier. He lives in Evanston.

Program presented as part of the Evanston Literary Festival, a joint production of Chicago Book Expo, Northwestern University’s Creative Writing Program, Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston Public Library, and Northwestern University Press.