Research -John Hilliard

Causes of death, 1970

John Hilliard

Cropping is a way of changing and influencing the way someone sees an image. To crop areas off of an image can alter the layout. If something in the image was to the side, you could make sure it was more in focus by cropping the image so that the object now appears in the centre etc. Cropping can also be used to hide details from a picture to give it new meaning.
For example, John Hilliard experimented with the cropping of a single photograph to give it a different meaning each time. The idea is that there could be several different events occuring in one space by cropping the photo. By cropping and changing the title/ caption of the photo this changes the way we interpret the image. Here Hilliard highlight's different parts of the environment to suggest different deaths.