van Gogh only got serious about painting in the last decade of his life, and even then he was pretty well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_o

van Gogh only got serious about painting in the last decade of his life, and even then he was pretty well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_Gogh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_... Toulouse-Lautrec even challenged another artist to a duel over the worth of van Gogh's paintings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh_chronology#1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh_chronology#189... I'm only an amateur aficionado of photography, but Vivian Maier seems a bit different. The quality is undeniable but the style seems a bit derivative or antique by 2010 standards. At least so far, I don't see territory that hasn't been well covered by other street photographers. Maybe more treasures will be unearthed from the collection, though. A thought just struck me: maybe she just couldn't afford, or never had time, to get her negs developed. What sort of photographer might she have become if she could have closed that loop just a bit faster, or easier?