This has been used in movies and photography for a long time to convey psychological tension (Diablo 3 Gold), and a sense that something isn't right with the scene. It has seen it's ups and downs in the last hundred or more years, and to me, this qualifies it to come out of the gimmick closet, and be recognized as a legitimate (if limited) technique.
Historically the first credible example I could find of this so called gimmick, was someone who won the 8th best movie of all time award in 2012's sight and sound poll... for a movie he made in 1929 using this very same "dutch angle" techniques being discussed here. The movie is called "man with a movie camera" and the guys "better known as" pseudonym is Dziga Vertov. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey9YIbra2U&feature=related
Thats a link to the whole movie, if you ever want to watch something really neat.
It puts your sense of natural balance off kilter to look at crooked horizons. Your head actually wants to physically tilt to make up for it.
I don't believe this sort of effect is a gimmick at all. It just has limited uses (Diablo 3 Gold), and is most effectively applied when the photographer wants to create that very sense of unease in his or her audience.
Yashicadude had a good idea to title that "the last look of a drowning man".
It's that very same sense of "somethings wrong" that i'm talking about. A tilted horizon is perfect in that scenario.
Although, truth be told, in this particular picture, I don't think the tilt adds much.
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