staged photography

narrative or staged photography is photography that is set up to tell a story, narrative photography involves someone creating a set up to photo to tell a story. in narrative photography the photo is about the characters and what the photographer is trying to express. Even if the photo is taken out of context the person should be able to understand the photograph as it is telling its own story, as apposed to a book or a film.  





one of the earliest accounts of narrative photography was the drowning man by Louis Daguerre. he took a photograph of himself posing as if he had drowned, this was in the 1800s.


this was a big change because photography was mainly portraiture.



Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

1840

Hippolyte bayard

i like this picture because it almost looks amateur and not well prepared for, like it was his first attempt.

fading away

henry peach robinson

1858

I like this photo because it looks really clean for its time, the is effect was achieved by combining different negatives and putting them together.

the cottingley fairies 
 Elsie Wright


1917

this photo is interesting because it was taken by a teenage girl who convinced people that the fairies were real because of how seamless the photo was  












http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/11/18/photography-and-narrative/
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/portrait_of_the_photographer_as_a_drowned_man