strangerframe
/ˈstreɪndʒəˌfreɪm/nounVerified NewAlso in: Fremdbild (Deutsch) · desconocuadro (Español) · cadrinconnu (Français)
The family photo taken by a recruited passerby whose composition, cropping, and thumb placement bear their signature.
Every album holds strangerframes: the feet in shot, the horizon tilted, half a monument. The stranger is thanked and never seen again; their aesthetic outlives the acquaintance. Families learn eventually to hand the phone to someone with a camera roll bigger than their own.
Etym. — stranger + frame — the one-frame collaboration with a person who will never be met again.
Rel. — photodelegate
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