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Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.
'For anyone interested in more than photography – particularly in comprehending its strange hold over us as an activity both for taking and viewing images – this absorbing book will both expand your understanding of the medium and provide you with fresh insights from latest research'
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Different Kind of Look: Picturing Narrative
Chapter 2: What Narrative Is
Chapter 3: Made for Each Other: People and Photography
Chapter 4: Time
Chapter 5: The Eternity of a Moment: Evidence
Chapter 6: A Cognitive Turn
Chapter 7: Scripts and Schemata
Chapter 8: Possible Worlds
Postscript