Following the discovery of her archive in a thrift auction house in 2007, Vivian Maier's posthumous trajectory from relative obscurity to one of the great American photographers of the twentieth century is the story of a singular talent. From the mid-1950s throughout her adult life, she worked as a nanny in New York City and Chicago. During this time, she created a huge body of photographs and films recording everyday street life, often including self-portraits and moments of fleeting reflection within the cityscape, and earning her comparisons to Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. This new addition to the Photofile series is a succinct and essential overview of Maier's work, and a fascinating window into American life.

Ruth Orkin (1921-1985) always dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, and although that ambition was thwarted until later in her career, she quickly found other ways of engaging with the world of images. She was given her first camera at the age of ten, and by the age of seventeen, she was cycling across the United States from Los Angeles to New York, documenting her trip in albums of annotated photographs. In the early 1940s, she settled in New York, joining the Photo League and making her name with photo stories for major magazines such as Life, Look, and This Week.

In images that range from celebrity portraits to bird's-eye views from her apartment window, from children at play to the experiences of a lone American tourist in Italy, Orkin's photography retains a cinematic sense of the passage of time and allows the humanity and charisma of her subjects to shine through.

This is a story of murder in the pursuit of the wealth and recognition which significant scientific discovery can bring. In the busy research lab of Dr. Yvette Bilodeau, the harmony of the her scientific team, is fatefully disrupted when a young graduate student, Mike Desfleur, is found murdered at his lab bench.

Detective, Brandell Young, has been taken away from his usual big city street crimes, to work the case and quickly learns about the significance of the lab's focus and the ramifications of discovery in the biomedical field. Was Mike killed because of his lady killer life style or was it something else? What was stolen from the lab and why? Yvette and Brandell with two different world views, begin a search to find the killer who is no novice in a laboratory environment.