Bear with me, and I'll try to get to the point ASAP:

I am somewhat intrigued with images that contain some very small point of interest, that the viewer might not notice right away, but which looms large once spotted. Two examples that come to mind are these:

Brett Weston's "47th Street" (named by others?):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3067167042/

Wynn Bullock's "The Limpet" (second from left, second row):

http://lumieregallery.net/artists_wp...h/index_8.html


Now changing gears a bit; I recently became aware of the work of a painter named Clyfford Still. (He may become as famous as he'll ever be because of this: http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-woman...051057896.html )

Many of his paintings have broad swaths of several colors, but many also contain a small bit of some very different color, attracting your eye like the like the small objects in the above photos. See the small spot of blue in the second painting, and the bit of red in the third, here:

http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/03/2...sandy-donabed/

Many of the paintings also contain bits like this right on their edges. Just Google him under "Images" or check out the one in the above news article. Of course we all hear that it is bad to have something like that on the edge of our photos, drawing the eye out of the frome. However, it seems to work in his paintings (or perhaps only I think that?). Maybe because there is often also something larger to draw us back into the interior each time we are pulled to the edge.

So now I finally get to the point: does anyone know of examples of this in photography? That is, putting something of major interest on the edge of a photo, cutting it off partially or almost entirely? Have any of you tried this?