Lee Friedlander- Reflections

Lee Friedlander is an american photographer known for his work on reflection photography and his series of photos named "America by car" in these images he has taken them from an angle of which is different to most photographers. He has taken these images either in a car looking out of the window or he has taken the images whilst including himself within them. This gives a new perspective on reflections.



In this image,  lee has included himself in a reflection on a shop window except he has blanked his face out with a poster which makes us look at the image behind him of JFK. It appears to look like he is JFK due to the angle of the shot.

In these two images, Lee has photographed them from the window of his car, Lee uses the reflections of the wing mirror to compress the perspective of things behind him such as the man and woman in this image and the bridge in the one below. due to this change in perspective of the mirror, we are drawn into the contents of it.







I liked the perspective Friedlander gives in his photography so I thought id try it out for myself! in this first image I thought id take one similar to Friedlander's reflection images and it worked, but then I felt like getting a bit creative, after all thats what photography is all about!

The next two images are from large puddles on the streets of Manchester whilst doing a bit of street photography. The images have been flipped to look as if they were taken normally but due to them being reflections in puddles, the perspective of them is changed and this gives a strange approach to the image! We almost miss the fact that they are taken in a reflection and our minds instantly assume that they are normal photos until we delve deeper into the image to reveal that it is no ordinary photograph of a tram line or skyline.

These two images just go to show that rather than always looking in the usual places for an image, try looking somewhere you wouldn't normally to give a different perspective because you never know how they can turn out!