The same photograph can make a crowd look huge or tiny, depending on which edges are cut away. What silent trick changed the truth?

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Hint: Look for what was left outside the frame.

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Cropping

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Cropping removes context from a photograph. The image may be real, but hiding the edges can make the scene seem larger, smaller, or more misleading than it was.

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