Intro to Narratives

Narrative: a spoken or written account of connected events; a story


In Narrative Photography, the idea is that photographs can be used to tell a story. While some narrative are defined, some photos are open ended and different stories can be created based off of that.

Below are five separate images. For each of the image, you will be asked to create a narrative or story about what you see in the image and write it on your class blog. Try to be as detailed as possible. You can give the subjects names, background stories, etc. 

If you do not all images by the end of class, finish it for homework --- due 2/27!!!

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Image 5

Choose a Video

You will choose one of the following videos to watch today.

1) Entering New Worlds Through Photography

         Photographer Christopher Anderson discusses his work and his life-changing experience aboard a Haitian refugee boat that sank in the Caribbean. We then followed him as he hit the streets to photograph New York City.

2) Dorothea Lange- An American Odyssey

        Dorothea Lange is best known for her photographs taken during the Great Depression and focuses on the impoverished Americans of the 1930s. Two of her photos, "Migrant Mother" and "White Angel Breadline" became icons of the Great Depression.

3) B&H Prospectives: Documentary Photography | Ami Vitale

         Acclaimed National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale talks about how her work has given her the privilege to tell the stories of people around the world and the responsibility photographer’s have in bringing these topics to light as a photojournalist.

4) Ansel Adams
        Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, Adams would take part in an extraordinary revolution: in photography, and ways of seeing what he called "the continuous beauty of the things that are".

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2/6 Organize Photos & Mini-Critique

Do Now: Pull up current work- you will have about about 10 min. to bring everything up on your screen and

get it organized to show to everyone.

If photos have not been placed in Photoshop yet, please still have all 9 photos ready to view.

When you have your work ready to view, come up to the front and grab an Art Sandwich!