Keeping with the Sally Mann theme, looking at her various works reveals how much spatial hierarchy is used to create different meanings in her work. In this first image, we get very little spatial hierarchy. We as viewers only see the subject and the background. In this image, Mann is able to use limited spatial hierarchy in order to startle us because we are forced, whether we want to or not, to look at the subject’s face.
















In the second photograph, there is more depth of field. The viewer sees the shoes and toy shopping cart as most immediate images. Still, the children, who are in the center, have the greatest focus spatially. By having the subjects further from the camera, Mann is able to allow us to see more of their word and to draw our attention to many different objects that form a world we create around the photograph. The way the floor boards line bottom of the picture and the contrast of the blurry sky versus the sharpness of the objects closest to the camera all combine to create a sense of what the picture is about.