Matthew Donald: Framing

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This photo here is an example of framing and how it can be used in graphic design. In this picture, the artist used several frames of various shapes and sizes to separate the images and provide a sequence that allows the ready for storytelling. In this image you can see a vast number of borders within borders used to delineate pictures. An example of this you can see in the main picture that there is a window frame within the border of the larger photo. Also you will notice that the smaller images are all seemingly held together by a larger thick white border that surrounds the page. As you look at the main image that is largest and centered you can notice that a lot of the smaller images that surround it are smaller crops of from a different perspective of that same image. As the lady sleeps on the couch the artist shows in some of the other smaller images a dream that she may be having. I did not notice any implied frames in this image. I can’t tell if there is an implied specific order to the images within the larger frame, however; in what seems (to me) to be the last image in the frame the artist introduces a new element when they show the old man leaving what seems to be a doctor’s office in a wheelchair. I found it interesting that throughout all of the other framing and cropping on this page, we don’t see the old man in the wheelchair until the end.

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