A Vivian Maier exhibit leads to a lawsuit against the owners of the Wicker Park gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey.
by Deanna Isaacs
In 2007, when the contents of Vivian Maier's storage lockers were sold off at a Portage Park auction house, Ron Slattery was one of three major winning bidders for boxes that turned out to contain the life's work of a remarkable photographer. Most of Maier's stash of more than 100,000 negatives, along with slides, undeveloped
film, and a smaller number of prints, wound up in the hands of two other collectors, John Maloof and Jeffrey Goldstein.…[ Read more ]