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Margaret Renkl: You’re pointing your camera the wrong way

Beware of what happens when we make ourselves the center of our photographs.

(Damian Dovarganes | AP photo)

This April 19, 2018, photo shows Library of Congress photo curator Beverly Brannan, left, and exhibition curator Anne Wilkes Tucker talk about "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange's moving portrait of a destitute farmworker photographed in 1936 at a pea-pickers camp near Nipomo, Calif.

(Damian Dovarganes | AP photo) This April 19, 2018, photo shows Library of Congress photo curator Beverly Brannan, left, and exhibition curator Anne Wilkes Tucker talk about "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange's moving portrait of a destitute farmworker photographed in 1936 at a pea-pickers camp near Nipomo, Calif.