![]() ![]() The county worked out a deal last year with the owner of nearly 90 percent of Maier's film negatives that will keep her photographs visible to the public, but the lawsuit against Goldstein adds further uncertainty to what will become of her artifacts acquired by other owners. ![]() The litigation marks the latest twist to what has become a multifront court fight over the rights to Maier's remarkable work as a street photographer that came to light only after she died virtually penniless in 2009 and now is likely worth millions of dollars. ![]() ![]() The suit also accused Goldstein of using “bad faith sham negotiations” with the county. Now Goldstein's defiant stance has landed him in federal court, where lawyers for Public Administrator David Epstein filed a copyright infringement lawsuit alleging he illegally profited off of Maier's posthumous fame. When the public administrator first began pursuing Maier's assets in 2014 amid the ongoing search for an heir, Goldstein abruptly sold his trove of Maier negatives to a Canadian art dealer, later telling the Tribune that “I'd rather cut my wrists” than be forced to partner up with the county. Former Rogers Park artist Jeffrey Goldstein has long expressed disgust over Cook County's takeover of the Vivian Maier estate, saying a cumbersome government bureaucracy had no business managing the reclusive Chicago nanny's stunning archive of world-famous photographs. ![]()
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