Narrative photography

Unit 31 Lo1 Blog Post 1

Narrative Photography 

Narrative photography is a way tell a story. Allen Feldman stated that "the event is not what happens. The event is that which can be narrated. In this case, the medium is photography.The Narrative Photography Competition describes the concept in the following way: "The power of narrative, or story telling is at the foundation of much of photography. 

Staged photography is involving a performance enacted before the camera. It embraces studio portraiture and character based scenarios directed or manipulated by the photography. It also captures staged scenes that are only for the photography.While this type of image became well known in the 1980s through the work of artists Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.

Hipprolyte Bayard was born on 20th January 1807 and died on 14th May 1887. He created the first staged photograph, Self Portrait as a Drowned Man in 1840.