Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier's photography was black and white up until the 1970s. Afterwards, she started to photograph more in colour. The subjects of her pictures were mainly people in poor communities, children, the elderly and the people who were excluded from the spotlight. Most of her pictures were taken in the streets of Chicago and New York, where she lived a great part of her life. As a nanny and caregiver who wasn't exactly the center of the spotlight, the motivation that Maier had behind taking these pictures was to show the world the beauty of those who weren't given enough attention and focus. In the 1970s, when her photography changed from black and white to colour, she started to take some abstract pictures, but her main subjects still remained the same. During her lifetime as a photographer, she also took various self-portraits.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander's pictures were all taken in black and white, but many of his pictures were not symmetrical. A lot of the examples that were asymmetrical can be seen in the photographs he took from inside a car. In his early pictures, his main inspiration came from Eugène Atget, Robert Frank and Walker Evans. His career started when he would photograph various jazz and blues musicians, and would take pictures for various magazines. However, in the 1960s, his career took off like many other street photographers. Like those he was inspired by, he would travel to different areas around the United States, and that's where he would take his pictures. Friedlander's ideas came from seeing the urban life within the places he visited, which is exactly what he photographed most of the time.
Sources:
http://www.vivianmaier.com/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vivian-Maier
https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/lee-friedlander
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Friedlander
https://www.famousphotographers.net/lee-friedlander
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