LO1 - Blog Post 1 - Narrative Photography

Narrative photography is an idea saying that photographs can be used to tell a story. Staged photography started early in history and has been carried out ever since. Staged photography involves a performance in front of the camera and it encourages studio portraiture and scenarios performed by characters directed or manipulated by the director. An example of this is the photograph below, the first ever staged photograph.                                      

Photograph Name: Self Portrait as a Drowned Man  
Photographer: Hippolyte Bayard
Date: 1840
Size: (550 × 538 pixels, file size: 293 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This photo shows a depressing scene, showing that a man has pretended to commit suicide which gives off a negative atmosphere and could put viewers in a bad way.