1.) The photographer, Vivian Maier, uses black and white photos taken from a film camera. These photos are of everyday people on the streets of cities the photographer traveled, so the subjects are about four to six feet away in their natural state. There are multiple subjects in the photos that are mostly centered but also show other subjects off centered. In the last photo shown she seemed to use a glass reflection of herself while capturing the people behind the other side of the glass.
2.) These photos are not staged and she has captured everyday people in their everyday life. In the first picture the girls seem to be skeptical of taking the picture as most of them are hiding in a shy nature. In society girls were taught to be modest and discreet. On the next photo the young boy is the opposite as he is urinating out in public as possibly his mother overlooks him. Her photos may have just been an unintentional hobby but they show life in the urban city areas at the time.
3.) For me I can see the behavioral norms or acceptances at the time. The ladies are being very meek and proper while the boy is comfortable in what most would call an embarrassing moment. Her self portrait also shows me how she sees other people within herself. As I learned she spent most of her life serving others as a nanny, I feel these photos can represent how as photographer we can live vicariously through our photos.
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