NARRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Narrative photography  is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story. 

Staged Photography is when people are set into postionions and frames. A Photographer who has been doing this for many years is Hippolyte Baryard. Hippolyte Baryard was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.

 

This black and white photo shows a group of people standing at a bus stop, flagging a bus down to stop.

The second picture shows a person lying down on the floor, either asleep or dead. He is wearing an orange jumpsuit and has also got a cardboard head with a face on it.