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00:30I think that's why I like it.
00:33Vivian was a very private woman.
00:36She was so awesomely neat.
00:38She was not an open person.
00:40She was a closed person.
00:41Vivian was my nanny.
00:44Yeah, she was our nanny.
00:46We certainly had no idea that she took photographs.
00:50She lived on the third floor in our attic.
00:52This was the forbidden zone.
00:54One of the first things she asked me for
00:56was please to put in a lock.
00:58She said, don't ever open this door.
01:01They didn't know there was this creative person there.
01:04She took so many photos.
01:05Around 100,000 negatives.
01:07700 rolls of undeveloped color film.
01:098mm and 16mm movies.
01:12She would take us and we would just walk
01:14in the worst parts of town.
01:16I think she liked that.
01:18You know, maybe we just didn't understand her.
01:21What would you say to Vivian now?
01:23What drove you to hide yourself away?
01:25I'd say to her, why the ****?
01:28Why the **** didn't you ever show me all the stuff you did?
01:31I thought I was a friend of yours.
01:34In death, she is getting the fame that she never had in life.
01:38I'm uncovering an artist.
01:39If I'm leaving this giant boulder unturned, it would be a mistake.
01:44Of course, she would have hated every minute of it.
01:46She would never have let this happen.
01:50She had some compulsive behaviors.
01:52She was a pack rat.
01:54I asked her what she did.
01:55Her answer was, I'm sort of a spy.
01:58We would say, what's your name?
02:00Miss V. Smith.
02:02There's a piece of the puzzle missing.
02:06As she was photographing, she was seeing just
02:08how close you can come
02:10into somebody's space.
02:12That tells me a lot about her.
02:15She could get them to accommodate her
02:17by being themselves.
02:18She could generate this moment,
02:21and then she's gone.
02:26Is there anything that you wish
02:28would have done differently then?
02:30Sure, I wish I would have found those negatives
02:32instead of you.
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