Photographs also make choices as to the distance from which they want to record their subject.
If you look at the various versions of Lange's Migrant Mother , you will notice that the photographer gets progressively closer and closer to her subject until, in the final version, we see only the upper half of the mother and her children. Usually, the closer the photographer gets, the more we concentrate on the feelings of the subject. In these two pictures of Bud Fields, we feel that we are emotionally closer as well as physically closer to the subject in the top photo.