Saul Leiter was known for his abstract street photography in New York City. He believed photographs should not always make their subjects immediately clear, allowing for discovery. The document discusses different reframing techniques photographers can use within a single frame, including natural frames, reflections, lining up or obscuring elements, and segmenting a space into unequal sections. It provides examples and encourages experimenting with these techniques on a photographic assignment.

1. REFRAME

2. saul leiter, through boards, 1957
Saul Leiter captured
the life of New York
City’s streets, often
experimenting with
abstract
compositions
REFRFAME

3. REFRFAME
"I like it when one is not
certain what one sees. When
we do not know why the
photographer has taken a
picture and when we do not
know why we are looking
at it, all of a sudden we
discover something that we
start seeing”
-Saul Leiter

4. Louis Ghirri segments
a space into
(un)equal sections
REFRFAME
These
compositions
feature an
‘interruption’

5. REFRFAME
NATURAL FRAMING

6. REFRFAME
NATURAL FRAMING

7. REFRFAME
NATURAL FRAMING + FOCAL POINT

8. REFRFAME
REFLECTIONS

9. REFRFAME
WAITING

10. REFRFAME
LINING UP / OBSCURING

11. REFRFAME
PHOTOGRAPHIC
ASSIGNMENT
Can you use lines and rectangles - like
windows, doorways, and poles - to create a
frame within the picture’s frame
FURTHER IDEAS &
TECHNIQUES
- What happens when you reframe something
special you want to show?
- Reflections in puddles
- Natural Framing (+ focal point)
- Lining up / obscuring
- Segment a space into three unequal sections
- Simplify something to the point of abstraction
- Just like Louis Ghirri,
consider composing a
shot which features an
‘interruption’