Comprehensive photo gift funds premiere of Vivian Maier photos

In celebration of a landmark gift to the campus by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is exhibiting never-before-displayed photographs of Chicago's once-thriving newspaper scene taken by Vivian Maier, a nanny and self-taught street photographer whose brilliant work was uncovered shortly before she died in 2009.  "See All About It," the inaugural exhibit of the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography in North Gate Hall, showcases Maier's obsessive but secretive photography. The Logan Foundation gift includes a donation to the campus of the Logan Photographic Book Collection, valued at more than $700,000, $3.1 million for an endowed professorship and gallery, and funds for a range of activities to bring the photo book collections to life for scholars and the public. The funds will provide a permanent endowment to promote documentary photography and photojournalism at the journalism school and UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library. This is the foundation's second major gift to the campus. Reva and David Logan wanted to ensure that documentary photography and photojournalism remain permanent, active parts of the journalism school's program, said Jonathan Logan, one of their sons who helped assemble and maintain the rare photography book collection. He noted that a gallery kiosk will allow visitors to explore some of the collection, turning book pages virtually.