Opinions

Say goodbye to the rectangular photo

From Paul Melcher

Some place its origin to mystic Egyptians trying to capture the quintessential field of vision while others are convinced that it has a mathematical relation to the golden ratio so favored by  renaissance artists. But in reality, it is nothing of the sort. The creation and subsequent standardization of the rectangular format in photography have much more humble and very practical origins.

At birth, photography was…Read more