PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Narrative Inquiry, Temporalities, Installation Art
Document Summary
In order to accept that photography can be narrative it is necessary to reject the 2 theses that photography is reduced to single-shot snapshot photography and that the medium has an intrinsic link with reality. From the very moment there is room for serial or sequential photography, on the one hand, and for fi ctional photography, on the other hand, the narrative capabilities of the medium come much more to the fore. Postmodern photography has radically challenged the mainstream ideas of photography"s intermedialization has proven crucial. Any image can be seen through a narrative lens. In the case of decisive moment pictures in the tradition of cartier- And of course the narrative turn in postmodern photography makes this tendency towards narrativization only grow stronger: what seems to proclaim the recent victory of narrative in our appropriation of the photographic medium is not without danger. Kemp: a story necessarily takes the audience into account.
