Author : Pam Morris March 15 2015
Creative cropping is a means of manipulating the message provided by what would have been the image had it been published as originally taken. The iconic Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Napalm Girl which helped galvanise the US public to call for an end to the Vietnam War(Figure 11), was published with a right hand side crop to remove the photographer dressed as a soldier, who is distractedly working on his camera as if there is nothing important happening in his field of view. When the photographer is included it changes the focus and meaning of the message entirely regarding the allies’ concerns for the Vietnamese people.
