Ryman, now eighty-five, has been making all-white abstract paintings, in square formats of different sizes, for most of the past six decades.
The best of Dureau's photographs, which are shot in square-format black-and-white, do not have human "strangeness" at their center; they are about the artist's curiosity, and not about treating others as curiosities.
Often, she places the quotidian and the mysterious side by side: the timber-framed house where Hodges lived is rendered in square-format black-and-white amid its sun-shadowed surroundings, while opposite, a white puppy lies prone on the leafy ground, the pinkish hue on its skin suggesting an alien light source.
Like Arbus, he photographed in black-and-white, in a square format and a basically old-fashioned style, the subjects usually alone and centered in the frame.
Mr. Fink's photographs are always in a square format.
I also wanted the sense of everything being totally centered in a square format — it's like things are more respected if they're composed that way.
There is something fun about framing a picture you know other people will like to see, and thinking creatively about what it's going to look like in a square format and with special effect filters.
The photographs are in a striking square format, the product of a 1990 purchase that proved serendipitous.
When Woody sneezes that big cloud of premium-quality California cocaine across the room during the party scene, does your mind's eye recall it in wide or square format?
Fox Solomon's photographs — composed in the black-and-white square format also employed in the work of Diane Arbus — are often described as personal.
Worst of all are custom screens, in the now obligatory square format of Instagram, that do nothing more than scrape social networks for recently posted images.
