FOUR-SQUARE
Farmer, Lancashire, England, 1973
Even a slight angle to this subject becomes more casual, less deliberate.
Sometimes criticized for being unimaginative, but in fact very useful and simple, a four-square viewpoint faces its subject head-on, frontally, with all the major lines squared up and rectangular. Magazine picture editors and art directors like it, especially for covers, because the horizontal and vertical alignments take headlines, mastheads and other typography very well. For it to work, you need to be very careful about centering ...
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