Crop and fragment the image

Image cropping is a purely photographic principle, determined by the specific features of the photocomposition, and methods of constructing a photographic space. The device’s lens more or less mechanically “cuts out” a certain sector from the unlimited space of nature. No matter how consciously and deliberately the borders of the frame and the location of the graphic elements in its field are chosen, this does not cancel the principle of fragmentation of nature. On the contrary, it is the photographer’s creative attention to the structure and boundaries of the frame that prompts him to isolate a fragment by the composition method. Continue reading →