Thursday 10 October 2013

framing and cropping

The importance of cropping

vivian maier's massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof. 

  
 


she never let anyone see any of her work which makes you think why and is it right that John Maloof is reprinting her work and is he doing it right since vivian Maire may have cropped some of her negatives. this leads to the question of artist intention ans misinterpretation of original context 


I thought that I would show how Vivian Maiers photos could be cropped to show a completely different image  as you can see the image above show a man being taken into a prison or hospital in new york with passing people watching. 


By cropping the images I have shown  how it can change the intent of the image the first image only show a man being escorted in to a building you dont know were he only that he need escorting. the other image only show a woman walking on the streets .











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