Common sense seems to dictate that photographs, especially those of children, are a part of our daily lives. In a recent study: "The Photo Marketing Association's Department of Information and Communications estimates that 25 billion photographs are taken each year in the United States alone, approximately 12.5 billion new American photos of children appear every year” (Higonnet 87). ). Every day, photographs of children are taken by amateur and professional photographers with different intentions and their viewers have their own interpretations. Photographs of children do not reflect the truth, because they represent what the photographer wants everyone to see. This is important because our image of children depends greatly on photographs even though we only see what we choose to produce. In Pictures of Innocence, Anne Higonnet provides details of the opinions of Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron on whether or not photographs of children show the truth. In Pictures of Innocence, Anne Higonnet raises the question of whether photographing children reveals the truth or is a form of art. Higonnet's Picture of Innocence raises the debate between 19th-century photography of Lewis Carroll's truth-seeking photographs and Cameron's intentional artwork. Both artists clearly had the ability to create meaningful images of children, with almost no training, but how and why they captured these images differ. Without doubt, photography is a thought-provoking art, and “[i]npretation attributes meanings to childhood photographs” (Higonnet 109). The essence of his argument is that photographs of children are subject to interpretation, like any other form of art. All types of art have different meanings depending...... middle of paper ...... Ewis Carroll's photographs of children are proof of this, she offers her readers the opportunity to see the control in these images. Anne Higonnet reflects on their work which shows that Cameron was correct in using photography as an art form, while Carroll wrongly believed her photographs captured the truth about children. For this reason, I reflected on my personal photographs from my childhood. I can clearly see that the adults in my life controlled almost everything about the photographs. The most obvious control, only recently realized, is the fact that the photographer says, well, cheese. When children say cheese, it forces a smile that adults want to see in their image and that they can share with others. Awareness of photographer's control proves that not all photographs of children show the truth, only the ideal..