NARRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY DEFINITION

Narrative photography is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story. Allen Feldman stated that “the event is not what happens. The event is that which can be narrated”.A narrative is a story that includes plot, characters, setting, climax and resolution.

Linear narratives present stories in a logical manner by telling what happens from one point in time to the next without using flashbacks or flash-forwards and then returning to the present.

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronilogical order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. It is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory, but has been applied for other reasons as well. It is also where the plot is told out of chronological order.

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