Narrative Photography

Narrative Photography

What is Narrative Photography?

     

Narrative Photography is where a photo is used to tell a story. Most scenes in narrative photos are set up and produced for the photo itself. There are many different photographers who base their work around narrative photography.

What is Staged Photography?

Stages photography is like an art form. Places are set up solely for a picture to be taken. Most photographer don't even take the picture themselves. However, they do set up the scenes and 'direct' the image, this is what makes it their photo. It involves a performance enacted before the camera. It embraces studio portraiture and character driven scenarios directed by or manipulated by the                  photographer.

3 Examples!

This is a photograph called 'The Drowning Man' who was produced by Hippolyte Bayard. This is a stage and narrative photograph as Bayard set this up to tell a story about a drowning man. This is a self Portrait of the photographer himself.

This is also another self portrait by Hippolyte Bayard. It shows him in the garden by his gardening gear. This is eye catching as it is an old photograph. It'll also suggests to the viewer that he liked to garden.

This is a self portrait of Cindy Sherman. It is narrative because it could be expressing the stereotype of women working in the kitchen. Although she is also glamoured up and looks like ready to go out which is another stereotype for women to always be looking their best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_photography

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Dan Boulton - Photographer Case Study 4

Dan Boulton was born in Enfield, North London in 1973. He is a black and white photographer who often take photo of skaters and people at skate parks. His work was included along side photographers such as Ed Templenton, Tobin Yelland and Dave Schubert in the 'Film Por Vida' group show in New Yorks Fuse gallery. Boulton is Uk-Based. He uses a Leica M6, a 50mm f/2 Summicron with Ilford HP5 film. He originally started taking simple photographs on his friends at skate parks just to capture the memory. Dans work is always Personal.






The Visual Style of Dan Boultons work...


Dan likes to document things with his pictures. He often used black and white to show the viewer that this is the most important moment. He does a lot of 'Urban' photographs that a young viewer in their teens can relate to.



Three Photographs..

As you can see, this different to what I have described Dan Boultons work to be. Although this is still an urban area, it is not a skate park there are no recognisable people in this photo. This photo shows an empty alley way in black and white. Viewers will most likely follow the path down with their eyes to see if it leads to anything interesting and will want to find out where it leads. This is a very simple photo yet very effective. The black and white shows mystery: This photo could have been taken in day light or late and night. Either way, the black and whites hides the truth.








This is different to most of Dans work. It is in colour and is also blurry. Most people who take blurry pictures think they are wrong and do not look right but Dan Boulton has very carefully showed this the blur is purposely there to illustrate movement at a skate park. (As if he, himself is also on a skateboard moving along with the main focused character in the image.








This is a photograph Dan took of a viewer looking at his other photography pieces in a gallery. Again, this is in black and white and hides the real atmosphere in the place. It's very interesting that he basically took and picture of another couple of his pictures. It captures the moment of the viewer enjoying his work and this could show an emotional depth to how far Dans work has come.







http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/dan-boulton-southbank/
http://findrangers.com/danboulton                                                                                               Question for Dan Boulton: Would you ever consider changing the model of your camera? If so, what would be your second choice?