Narrative Photography

Narrative photography is the idea that photo's tell a story. In photography, narrative is related to the idea of context. Narratives can be structured in a number of ways, but the classical form is – a story with a beginning, middle and end.

Photo's that have been captured staged or artificially constructed. This kind of image making became popular in the 1980s by artists like Lady Clementina Hawarden. The first staged photograph was by a french photographer Hippolyte Bayard in 1840 which was titled 'The Drowned Man' 

Ninteenth-century staged photographs sometimes involved techniques like multiple exposure or combination printing created from many negatives. 

There was also female artists at this time such as Lady Clementina Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron. These artists created narrative scenes using a single negative.