Frame is an archaic concept for most contemporary photographers. It is a throwback from an age when aesthetics prevailed and composition derived tension from spatial and positional relationships. Frame also denoted context and functioned as a Meta linguistic reference for levels of awareness. The first assault against frame was launched in the 1970's by Chris Burden and other body artists who punctured large gaping holes in the firmament that sheltered life from art and art from life. Today such distinctions are academic.
Outside the Box
Most of us are aware of the leaking out of art into Newtonian space but it is also true that art is now able to envelope life and bring it into its folds, (otherwise Le Mois de la Photo à Uqbar could never have succeeded in swallowing a museum). In 1984 Neo Sisskind succeded in capturing the entire Soho gallery district in a single image, simply by dissolving the walls.
