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Another great example of how composition of images make the sitter look down the image to the subject. Although Hine did not compose his images as carefully as Wolleh - mainly due to the fact that he was in fact under cover shooting the images secretly. It was because of these images that Hine took that child labour was highlighted and abolished in the US. The images were taken on a medium format camera at waist level.

Hine's images link directly with reality and how what you see is what you get. His documentary/ photojournalist approach to these images changed the child labour industry. These are an example of how images of the reality of the world can get help. Linked closely to this I feel is the images which charities use and those of which charities have used in the past. One that pops into my mind straight away being the image of the 'Migrant Mother' by Dorothea Lange.

Here is where the questioning of photography and reality come in again. This image was supposedly suppose to be a documented image of Lange's journey for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) during the Great Depression in the 1930's. The image of the 'Migrant Mother' became the face of the Great Depression it was and still is the image which everyone remembers from that dark era. When people in America at the time saw this image they started giving money - it was the face of the depression and FSA charity.

In the image you can see there is 3 children, Lange said that she spotted the family whilst driving through the country and quickly got out to tatke the picture but other images from Lange's collection suggest otherwise. In fact in the other images the woman has many other children - if people had seen that she had more than three children would they have been as generous? Also before Lange worked for the FSA she was trained as a portrait photographer which is evident in the image above through the composition and the way the Mother is holding herself. So is a completly set up image photojournalism/ documenting. So many believed this image to be the reality but it isn't so are there images which are reality or not? My argument with this image would be that people could make a reality out of this image as there probably would have been people in this situation in the era of the Great Depression but whether it was right to make money from a constructed scene or not is the question. Below are the other images from Lange's shoot with the Mother.