POST 1: Narrative Photography

photography is being able to tell a story with a photo. Allen Feldman once said that "the event is that which can be narrated". and for this case, the medium is photography.
Narrative photography is used to tell a story with a photo which has been used for years.
Hippolyte Bayard was a french photographer who created the the first staged photo in 1840. He pretended to commit suicide.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Bayard,_Hippolyte_1801-1887_-_Selfportrait_as_a_Drowned_man_1840.jpg

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The photo Fading Away was taken by Henry Peach Robinson in 1858. This photo used such techniques as multiple exposure or combined printing from many negatives. Which all came together when creating them in the dark room.



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