Photographer Dorothea Lange documented agricultural workers during the Great Depression, often returning repeatedly to the same camps and families. Her widely reproduced photograph "Migrant Mother" shows a woman with a careworn expression flanked by two children. In interviews decades later, the woman portrayed expressed mixed feelings about the photograph, noting that it had shaped public perception of her family's circumstances without ever paying for their relief.
Which choice most logically completes the text? The passage suggests that documentary photography may _______
- Acheck_circle
shape public perception of subjects whose own situations may not be improved
- B
be considered a form of fiction by the photographers themselves
- C
remain entirely separate from the lives it depicts
- D
always provide direct material benefit to its subjects
Explanation
Wide reproduction shaping perception while not aiding the family supports B. A contradicts the woman's account; C contradicts repeated visits; D is unsupported.