Narrative Photography

Narrative photography is the idea that the photographs taken will attempt to tell a story. The main aspect in narrative photography is Staged photography, this is when it involves a performance but its enacted before the shooting.  This effect embraces portraiture and character driven scenarios which is directed or manipulated by the photographer.

The first staged photograph was back in 1840 this was created by the French photographer Hippolyte Bayard. The photograph taken is named the Self Portrait as a Drowned Man. In the image its a man who pretends to commit suicide. Also during nineteenth century staged photographs involved techniques as multiple exposure, or combination printers created from many negatives. The distinct elements are staged in a studio, while the rest of the elements are manipulated in the dark room.Another photo which used these techniques was the Fading Away which was photographed by Henry Peach Robinson in 1858.

James Stephenson,Unintended Vistas.
I chose these pictures as it sums up a daily office job. The way the image is in dull colors shows that the office jobs are boring and dull. He wanted others to notice the surrounding of office jobs.

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