I think there are really two origins to this idea. First, Magnum was established as a photographers' cooperative to give the members control over the way their photos were used, including being able to impose a condition on publication so that photo editors couldn't ruin a picture by cropping it without the photographer's approval.
Second, Cartier-Bresson imposed it on himself (not on others) as a discipline, which he broke once or twice, because his view was that choosing the right place - and therefore the right framing - for the picture was as important as choosing the right moment, and that if it was wrong then no amount of cropping could fix it. If you shot slides you could mask them, and people often did, or you could print them cropped, just as you do with negatives. B On 9 May 2013, at 13:27, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the "no cropping" idea became popular when many photographers > were shooting slide film. The same goes for a lot of the more > restrictive "get it right in the camera" stuff. > > You didn't crop because you couldn't. So you got it right in the camera. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
