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WEEKFIVE

NARRATIVE

what is narrative?
"Narrative is a structure that helps define content and form. 
 This can be applied to 
story, prose, poetry, music, painting, photography 
and any other form of visual art"


This gave an insight on how to make our images.
with an attractive narrative
a photograph can completely alter a perception
and a first impression.
whether the image itself holds a scene
or has text beside explains the piece
all image must have a focus and purpose
for example Gilbert & Georges work
may seem strange and abstract
but the connotations behind their work 
touch political and social issues that run deeper than the ink.
another Artist which address universal issues
beyond the aesthetics is Sally Mann
who photographed the American South in the 1970s. 
Mann is renown for her series “Immediate Family”, 
where her subjects are her young children in an "evocative and resonant landscape", 
who often appear nude. 
The children are captured in a 
"playful behavior in such graceful serendipity," 
however her prints have always attracted controversy. 
"This worked in her favour "as this brought her work publicity; 
therefore her audience grew in size. 
Mann’s images have a haunting yet dreamy atmosphere, 
this was because her photographs were often taken through damaged lenses. 
This resulted in prints with "shifted focus, scratches and light leaks."

candy cigarette

Jessie, Emmet and Virginia

"Sally Mann has captured childhood as many adults wish it to be, not as a series of trivial events and encounters, but rather as a grand gothic narrative bathed in the Virginia sun. 

source: http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2007-11-29_sally-mann/

            http://linka-lebedeva.livejournal.com/180978.html?thread=2922482

            http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/mann_sally.php

            http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/