Photography

Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American photographer and art promoter.  He is best known for his NYC galleries, "Camera Work" - a photographic journal, and for promoting photography as an art form.

"Winter, Fifth Avenue" was taken in the early 1890s and over the years there have been many different versions.  Stieglitz himself exhibited different versions as examples of the effect of cropping and cloning.  The version shown below was published in the October 1905 issue of "Camera Work" using the photogravure (intaglio printmaking) technique.

© 2017 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society


an uncropped version

Stieglitz did not have any issues with cropping and/or altering the original image, although I understand some of his contemporaries did...

Note the absence of the railroad ties (see the published version above)
I can recommend looking more deeply into the life of Alfred Stieglitz as it reads like a who's who of the period...

Thanks for looking,
Casey

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Have a look at the following video as an introduction... (running time 1 hour 27 minutes)

However I fail to see any difference from the comparison.

The third and fourth photos are the same, sorry for that confusion...

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having an impact... Not in this photo, but a level horizon also makes a big difference (IMHO).

cropping an image to your heart's content but I do take under serious scrutiny actual image alterations. In this instance I find it acceptable although I do not feel it added anything in particular which would be lacking in an otherwise unaltered photo. Cheers, Filip

One famously altered photo is John Filo's Pulitzer Prize winning image from the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University in Ohio (USA).

As Photographed (cropped version)




Altered Photo (missing pole & cropped version)

For any not familiar with the above photography, the incident involved the shooting of four unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard during an anti war protest.

There are just as many examples where the original unaltered photograph is more appropriate...  and indeed I can accept either way regarding cloning for non-PJ photographs...

Casey

The appropriate decision for that image was to remove the pole which was coincidentally awkwardly placed so to look as if it is sprouting out the top of the woman's head. Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Filip