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Images tell stories

            
             There are several methods in which images are able to tell stories. This ranges from taking picture of an action, putting a chronological series of images together, like a comic or a story board, or taking a photograph of a still object. There are varying opinions to how true or accurate a story from pictures may be. This essay will discuss the different methods of creating of representing stories through pictures and how reliable a picture is at accounting events. .
             The photograph is a moment in space and time. It is the photographer's concept, not necessarily the viewers. How do you classify Kirlian photographs, photo grams or abstract works such as Vortographs, etc.? There are too many types of photos to be bound by your narrow interpretation of what constitutes the working precepts of a photograph. If you are only including documentary photography into this tiny definition, then yes, it can show a moment in space and time. Therefore if somebody takes a picture of a ball of yarn and its deterioration over a year it is likely tell a reliable story.
             As a photographer you are constantly manipulating the viewer. There are lighting techniques to make the object appear larger or smaller angles that change the appearance of an object. For example Tracy Emin often distorts shapes or arranged objects to make them appear as sexually provocative poses by women. This would mean a photographer is a liar because he/she cannot tell the truth. "A photographer is a liar because of the non- ability communicating her or his truth message" I am going to assume for a moment that you cannot speak Greek. Does this make you a liar to someone who only speaks Greek because of your "non-ability" to communicate your message? Perhaps you could draw him a picture - but I suppose that would be a lie as well. We are not positive of what is going on inside the head of a photographer, therefore we are unable to have an accurate understanding of the story behind an image.


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