Approach of work

All the people Strauss photographs are strangers and her introduction to someone is always "can I make your photo?" she has also approached strangers in bizarre manners like inviting herself into strangers homes. Strauss gets into a conversation with the subject, records the moment with a photo and she's off again in search of another subject but still appreciates the "...beauty and thrill of the meeting..." but with a very few of them does stay in contact.

In the interview I mentioned about before Strauss mentioned that her aim to when ever she approaches someone is to take a photograph but doesn't really know what quiet attracts her to the person but later on in the editing process the reason for taking the picture approaches her and so come together as a project. The images with the greatest importance and satisfaction are the people with who she connected with better. "a sense of pride and joy of being in the world...both happy to be alive..." Some of Strauss's images look as if the subject have had a tough life and respect that fight and where they are in life now.

I see Strauss's work as a political government view which she fights against trying to show her audience the reality, the truth. For example a picture that Strauss took; a picture of a lady named LaTonya in Cabrini Green, which apparently has a large population of rough and poor black community in chicago. Strauss was drawn to her ear lobe which looked as if the earring had been pulled out during a fight. After sometime Strauss received an email from someone stating that they were LaTonya's cousin and mentioned that LaTonya was once a singer but it was a quick rise and fall situation. Although LaTonya lives in such an area and appearance wise may come across as a rough person, when Strauss talks about her in her book America she mentions how they get on very well even though she didn't know her and in the second by chance meeting they embraced although in the first meeting they had only spent a few minutes together.