Vivian Maier;

Vivian Maier is an American amateur street photographer whose main job is as a nanny. Vivienne is of French descent. She was born in New York but grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she lived in New York and Chicago. She took more than 100,000 photos in her life. In 2007, local historian John Maloof discovered a large number of her negatives and began organizing them.

You can see that the photos she takes have a really natural feeling, you can tell that they have been taken without notice . The coloring of picture she takes is different, she uses both black and white and colored photographs. I personally like her colorful pictures more but because I have been taking colorful images for multiple times, I will be trying out something new and editing my photos into the same black and white tone. I will be taking pictures up close and from far away making sure I ask people for permission for the closeups. She also takes pictures of people from mirrors as a reflection, this is a great way of demonstrating as a reflection photography.  Kids and animals are also seen in her photography, not only adults will be the focus. Her photograph shows abstract in color, lines, theme, and texture.

A more closer look to the picture of the woman in the middle with the mirror, I really like how she captured this photo without the woman looking into the camera even through a mirror. The color of it is black and white, there are two mirrors shown in the picture which has reflections of both the woman and the other mirror. This shows a contrast of reality and reflection making the image’s audience think deeper of the situation. To me, the mirror and reflection happens is maybe because the woman is trying on something for her hair that she needs to mirror it to see whether it looks good on her.  I am not sure if I will be able to take this kind of photography because of the unknown number of mirrors I am going to see with people trying on something using it.