This is a great topic. I was made more aware of the "unframed" or " pointing" approach to photography after reading an interview with William Eggleston, a "pioneer" in color fine art photograpy. His images to me are disturbing for their lack of reference to any frame. He says in the interview that in 1976 he stopped looking through the viewfinder altogether. Of course, he is not a LF photographer. Yet, he has influenced a generation of artists and photographers. I have been wondering how many other current photographers feel about this anti-frame approach. Its so antithetical to my own intensely compositional approach that I use whether I'm using a LF camera or a small camera. I compose automatically, without thinking. I can't imagine not. In order to not frame I'd have to not use the viewfinder nor look into the ground glass. Someone else would have to focus the camera for me. I still have a hard time understanding the appeal of such unframed photographs. To me they look random, like a 4 year old took them without knowing what he or she was doing. Still, according to the experts this is art! [scratching my head in bewilderment]
Here's the Eggleston interview: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1266665,00.html
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