What I see? What You see?

Citing John Szarkowski: "To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. His central problem is a simple one: what shall he include, what shall he reject? The line of decision between in and out is the picture's edge. While the draughtsman starts with the middle of the street, the photographer starts with the frame. The photograph's edge defines content. It isolates unexpected juxtapositions. By surrounding two facts, it creates a relationship. The edge of the photograph dissects familiar forms, and shows the unfamiliar fragment. It creates the shapes that surround objects. The photographer edits the meanings and patterns of the world through an imaginary frame. This frame is the beginning of this picture's geometry. It is to the photograph as the cushion is to the billiard table."
(from The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski)

This work wants to reflect on the infinite compositional possibilities of photography that are in the photographer's mind before to take the picture, but even after the author finished it, and decided to print it. The photographic image will never be a mere recording of reality.

The work is composed by a fine-art print (Reichstag, Berlin) mounted on aluminium, and three mats in different sizes, which can be placed at will by visitors.