In the opening of the second paragraph in James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee is aware of the difficulties in the lives of those who do not have the opportunity to speak on behalf of themselves. He believes that documentary work should only portray the people as they are and in no way or form humiliated by those who have everything. I agree with Agee in the sense that documentary work should not be used to exploit the weaknesses of the less fortunate and should not be used as an opportunity to humiliate these people. Agee states that a profit should not be made from such documentary work because these profits are made by prying into the personal lives of the defenseless and those who have been damaged by their misfortune. People who have everything they need to survive and endure during a time of hardships should not be given the opportunity to humiliate, exploit and judge the lives of those who do not unless they know what it means to have nothing. Dorothy Lange’s documentary work of “Migrant Mother” exploits such weaknesses in her photographs of the mother breast feeding. These photographs should not have been selected to be part of her work because it reveals the desperation of the family during the Great Depression and it is a personal moment between mother and child that should be honored with privacy not photographed for the sake of a documentary. Privacy is to be expected in such an event and should not be used to exploit the weakness of this