At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Josephine and I looked at a photograph by Sally Mann. It is easy to tell just by looking at the painting that the girl in the center is the focal point. However, the punctum of the picture we felt was the girl to the right rubbing her eye. She caught our attention and pierced our heart. This girl not only provoked a lot of thought for us but also a lot of questions. Why did she look upset? Why did she look so tired? Why did her presence seem so unwanted? By the looks of her and the other girls, it was possible to assume that they were all probably sleep deprived and their state of undress varied. The girl on the right although reasonably dressed seemed the most under decorated on the face while the opposite could be said of the girl in the middle. My heart goes out to the little girl on the right because she looks so miserable. Not only is she in the dark and in the background, she seems so distant from the two other girls. While the two other girls seem to have some connection to the individual behind the camera, the girl on the right is shying away, looking towards the ground. The shadow cast on her face is the darkest and is also the most gloomy. The light symbolizing pure and angelic is not present on the most miserable, the most outcast girl of the group.

A photograph by Sally Mann taken in 1987 of her daughter, Jessie, which produced a lot of critique.