With these two pictures on top, the first one taken by Lange and the second taken by Evans, one noticeable difference is the camera angle from which the picture is taken. Like the picture on the left, Lange usually takes her photos from a lower angle, which makes the women suddenly seem larger than life, as if to say that she is larger, and better, than her socioeconomic status. With Evans, many of his pictures of women were taken from a higher angle, looking down on the subject, such as the picture on the right. The subjects look smaller and more insignificant. While Lange’s women are standing seemingly symbolically against their hardships of the time, Evans shows the outcome of the hardships, and the result is a deflated woman staring listlessly up into the camera.

Another main difference is that Lange usually has the illusion of movement in her pictures. Evans’ subjects seem very self-conscious of the camera, at times they even look right into the camera, and as a result they look posed and static. Not knowing what to do or how to move forward during those times of hardship, the subjects reflect their helplessness through the camera by their lack of movement. Lange, on the other hand, normally takes pictures of women when they are caught off guard or when they are in action, giving a sense of motion to her photos. If we look above on the left taken by Lange with the woman helping to farm the land, there is movement, as if to say that they are actively moving forward. Despite the struggles they face during the Depression, these photographs with movement show that they are strong, that they are unwilling to give up, and that they are taking action in order to better their life.