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The emotionel effect of "cut shapes" is always to pull into
the picture a strong sense of thinge going on beyond the picture
frame.
The cut forma tend to crowd the picture with the unseen as
well es the seen.
All 1i nes "le ad out". Anathema of the kindergarten pictorialists,
it is characteristic of Cnen Structure, evitel clessiftoutton or
petnting, and most important, ie a charecteristic of photography.
The use of open forme gives the impression that the picture ie a
slice of 1ife, the opposite of isolation from life.
With open forms
the picture gives the feeling of being as little removed from the
original as the medium will allow.
