The "A Frame Legs" pose

If you speak to my wife she will tell you I am addicted to the Internet and maybe I am. I tell her she is addicted to Foxtel in a similar fashion and my addiction is because half the time I am not interested in what she is watching. Anyway I tend to google, Wikipedia  and generally search for info as well as looking at other photographers work. In the course of researching a particular photo shoot I came across this about the use of the "A Frame Legs" Pose. Something I will have to look at putting in my portfolio. Meanwhile...

On  Book covers and on film and theater posters, the leg has evolved very little. In fact, the “A-Frame,” a cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device, is the most frequently copied trope ever used. From steamy paperbacks designed in the ’40s (Pamela’s Sweet Agony), hardly a year has gone by without at least one ham-fisted advertisement using this perspective. The earliest known uses were 19th-century engravings that showed spread-legged, Simon Legree–type slave masters lording over cowering victims. In Westerns, the quintessential showdown frames one duelist through the legs of the other, and mid-20th-century pulp magazine covers were known for their noir images of recoiling women seen through the legs of menacing men. Eventually, designers used the conceit to frame all manner of things, from retro musicals (Cry-Baby) to the James Bond flick For Your Eyes Only (plus the Austin Powers spoof Goldmember) and gritty, contemporary Westerns (3:10 to Yuma).Author  STEVEN HELLER



Read more at PrintMag.com: Evolution: One Leg Leads to Another and watch the slide show.