Thursday, February 5, 2009

Narrative Photography - Artists

Narrative Photography - Artists

Lawrence Ripsher
(pictures from Lawrence Ripsher's narrative photography story called "The Cell")
Lawrence Rispher is a British photographer who shoots a range of different pictures. He takes narrative pictures, sports pictures, photojournalism and portrait photography. His work is well known as it has been published and he has had some galleries. At the moment he is the Official Photographer for the Contender Asia and he's livng in Singapore.

Kristina Drobny

Kristina Drobny was born on January 30, 1980 and has always enjoyed drawing and writing stories. It was when she first picked up a camera in high school when she found her passion. She started talking pictures of people and likes to take pictures of meaningul topics. Droby graduated from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown with a BFA in photography and received the title of McMurran (highest achievemt to be attained at that school.) She also attended the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)is a French photographer who loved photography ever since he picked up his first leica. In 1933 he had his first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York and later he also made some films with other photographers like Jean Renoir.
Bresson was a prisoner of war in 1940 but managed to escape in 1943 and later he joined an underground organization to help prisoners and escapees. In 1945 he took pictures of the liberation of Paris along with other journalists. In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Magnum Photos along with Robert Capa, George Rodger, David 'Chim' Seymour and William Vandivert. In 1952 he published his first book called Images à la Sauvette. In 2003 he created the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris to take care of his work. Henri Cartier-Bresson has received several awards for his work and he has had many exhibitions and a lot of his work has been published.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Narrative Photography

Narrative Photography
Narrative photography is when a few pictures have been taken that link together and create a story. Photographers often decide to take a series of pictures linking together to tell a story or opinion. Lawrence Rispher is a British photographer who takes some narrative photos and he is work is known and it has been published. One of his stories is called "Fragments" and here are two pictures that are from the story and they link together