Photography as Narrative
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The concept of narrative is a very powerful tool when applied to photography. In this video I explore three different examples of photographers using narrative to communicate visually in book form.
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Ted Forbes
The Art of Photography
2830 S. Hulen, Studio 133
Fort Worth, TX 76109
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Thanks for the kind words about my book! I'm glad you liked it!
is there any humanitarian version of shipping to europe that doesnt cost more than the book itself?
@@jakubrostkowski6420 Where are you in Europe? I know it can be very expensive.
Thanks for sending!
Dear Ted, thank you very much for your nice words and appreciation to my work. You have no idea what it means to me and the extra boost it gives me to pursue my photography with more fervor.Thank you..
You are very welcome!
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Love your book!
@@lyric8529 thank you so much..
Awesome book! I love your work! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@CHRISTOPH-B thank you so much
I know these type videos don't generally pay the bills, but it's always like a holiday when they appear. This was very informative and felt like a great throwback to classic "AoP"!
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Ted is KILLING it with vids - love the photobook series and images which live on their own!! I make them myself.
Ted, I think your audience would enjoy an interview with Erhan Coral. I don't often freeze a video to study images... I did this time. Your channel and authentic enthusiasm is very inspiring. Thanks, Chris Seattle
Having a multi-decade portfolio embodies both an intended and an unintended/unconsciousness narrative or sorts. I love what you do with the channel and wish you many decades of photographic exploration, Ted!
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Enjoyed this video. Particularly love Erhan Coral's book.(so much so that I had to go looking on IG for more of his work) Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for incorporating a more focused lesson with the mail. I was struck with a narrative idea of my own
Man, I love this YT channel. Great work Ted. Probably one of the only real photography channels left.
Thanks Alex ;-)
Thank you for introducing me to some great photography I would not have discovered otherwise.
Thanks Ted. I really enjoy these types of videos. I know they aren't big money makers, but they are much appreciated.
That last book the photos were amazing. There was one shot with the dogs heads only looked like a portrait shoot with humans sort of thing but with the pack of dogs. 30 years though, that really gives you something to think about ❤️
Thank you Ted. Very timely video as I am contemplating where to take my photography next.
Nice talk , books are well done . Start to link two pictures , then skies the limit ! One picture is a challenge , is hard enough . Two or more , well …
Three excellent books and a very informative review. The book on the foxhounds is magnificent!
Brilliant. I am in awe. First, of these books and the photographs in them. And of you, your dedication to the art and craft; your clear recognition of excellence and your ability to share and describe it. I'm grateful. And I'm inspired. I'm as of this moment planning a book of why I made photographs of three general subjects and the move from one to another. I wouldn't have thought of this without your video.
Oh wow one can see and learn a lot from all three books, thanks for sharing Ted Forbes and thank you for your terrific channel!
Love this! I'm showing this video to my students this upcoming week as we cover Narrative Photography as a unit.
Fantastic video on the subject of "Narrative" in photography. Presenting my images as various narratives is an idea that has been at the back of my mind for some time. The books you chose were great examples and inspirational as well.
Ted, hi, I didn't expect the book to arrive so soon and even more to see a video of it! You can't imagine what a surprise it was for me to see the book in this series. I'm excited to so much! I want to thank you for the great presentation! I also want to thank you for something else! It's for the inspiration, the drive, the emotion and the love of photography that you inspire me and the rest of the people in the world who watch your channel.
Thank you!!❤
Thanks Svetli!!!!
@@theartofphotography Actually, some 4 years ago I sent you my first zine, “CONTRASTS” then you had started the idea of sending books by mail very spontaneously, and I just as spontaneously realized my first project, thanks to your videos. :)
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I’ll find it in the stacks eventually ;-)
Nice work Ted!! love your videos. Recently bought your preset great set. Keep playing with them to find out what work well for my pictures and the light in Peru.
Thank you very much Ted for this wonderful video! I really enjoy your take on these books. There is really something special about the beautiful composition of the narratives around the photographs, the way negative space, captions, and choice of paper magnifies the work of the photographers. It makes me think of a museum curation process!
you get so much great stuff from the viewers Ted thanks for sharing, Im sturggling with this myself how to sequence what to put in what to leave out, its almost paralyzing - I guess you just have to print and start storyboarding or something along those lines and see what evolves
Man, the pictures in the book „Alone In The City“ look amazing! 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for sharing this. ✌🏻
Great video! I find street photography to be the easiest form of “storytelling” within photography. Anything where the focus are people, stories come relatively easy imo.
Fantastic presentation, with valuable and inspiring information abd inside. Thanks for sharing.
This was inspiring. I'm already wondering what narratives I might address. It feels like a great way to kick start my passion when I get that old feeling that it has all been done before. Thanks, Ted. Oh, and the beard looks great.
thanks for showing us, great and gorgeous works!
The beard looks even better
He always has something to say, and says it well. Subscribed. Finally.
Just a brilliant video and sublime work on show. These are the kind of videos that make TH-cam a special place. Thanks Ted
I really want to send something but I don't know that what I do is good enough. You receive a lot of really solid photobooks.
Very interested to see this one Ted - I've been working towards publishing my own narrative collection in a simple, 20 page, 'proof of concept' magazine that'll enable me to springboard onto refining and developing it. Very excited to have just organised, uploaded and ordered a copy to see how my design sense translates into a physical publication.
In this predominantly ephemeral and transitory Insta-imaging world of scroll to, through and past, it's a pleasure to see photography projects and concepts that have a serious commitment of time, love and passion attached to them, spanning a decade and more and which communicate and embody respect for the subject matter.
Thanks again for a great episode.
I love the book series, Thank you Ted
Thanks Ted. My own style leans towards a more narrative process of telling a story in a sequence of images. I am inspired by Robert Frank’s The Americans and by tutorial videos, other documentary photographers Videos I have seen on sequencing of images.
I’m working on a book that started as an exhibition-I write extensive stories about each photo. This was helpful.
This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm currently making a photo book about my years of photography and it's very exciting. I haven't shared much of my work so I can't wait to have this physical version to show everyone. Maybe I'll even send you one Ted..
Great video again Ted, encouraging photographers to produces books. I have produced two of my own Photobooks during the Covid times.
You never disappoint.Appreciate all your videos
I attended a presentation by Arnold Newman back in the early 70's, a community college had a series of presentations by well known photographers.
This was incredibly informative! Thank you Ted!
Thank you Ted!
Very nice. I teach a first year composition class at Washington State University where we look at visual literacy as an important skill. One of the assignments I have students engage in is a weekly photo journal where they are asked to pay attention to what is happening around them and take pictures of what they notice then tell the story. Last semester I had them submit photos to a gallery. In the Fall, I plan to have them submit images and the narratives that go with them to a photo book project. Anyway, I will probably show this video as part of the instruction leading up to that assignment. Thanks for such awesome content.
The beard looks good 💯
Awesome, To maintain a narrative structure can be very challenging. Especially when you're fond of an image or images that do not quite fit. I often tell my students that to be able to kill darlings will result in a more concise story. I really like the very different approaches you have shown here. Thanks, Ted!
great video and great books
Great video Ted, as usual, thanks a lot! Any tip about how self-publishing an own photography book? Thanks in advance
This is absolutely unrelated to photography and the video itself but I love your beard, it really suits you!
I'm glad to hear about brilliant printers. I'll look them up. * I was thinking of old masters painting styles also.
Who knew George Clooney has such an influential photography channel!
I havent watched in a while, so interesting. I also love your presentation and how you kept in your mistake's, it not trying to been perfect but it shows honesty
Ted, I appreciate your work and thoughts and observations so much-thank you. I'm right now working on a book project placing photography and poetry together. There are characters in the poems and I'm curious your (and others') thoughts on utilizing models overtly to represent the narrative that is implied in the poems? I'm not thinking this will take on the feel of a graphic novel, but I'm curious about the idea of when to use words and when to use photos to convey narrative and feeling. It's got me really considering what each art form provides in terms of experience. Great video, super helpful for me on this project. Thank you.
Interestingly invented: photography and poetry together
Great stuff Ted! Can you recommend a printer?
Nice video Ted. Are you still shooting the Leica and 50?
I would like to do something similar with my photos. I still consider myself an amateur but I truly like the idea of creating a story with a collective of images.
Really good idea
Hi Ted,
As always, more great insight! The Shire hounds looks like an amazing book that I can't afford but, I do love the concept! I have done a few demos through Blurb to get a feel for the concept, and it is harder than it looks for sure. Although I'm not sure if I would want them to print my final project, Blurb, and other companies like these give us a great opportunity to experiment at a reasonable cost. Just another reason to try out narrative, and this mode of communication. All the best! :-))
As always another quality video.
Unfortunately I don’t have this app as I limit my social media apps. I use email for 50 percent of my communications and WeChat the rest of the time. I am here in the states only until China reopens and I can return to my home there. Would like to get together and talk next time I am in Texas.
EXCELLENT, when it comes to putting a collection together for a zine or book how many images work best and i
how many images work best for a small to medium show I am working on a collection to put together a show in local establishments for art
I LOVE THAT, BOUND TO THE COUNTRY! 🥰😍
Ted at his best! Please more💯
Hermoso 😍😍😍
Thank you.
30 Years? I guess I better get going. I will be over 100 in 30 years. I loved the first and third books but I appreciate the effort and quality in the kick boxing book.
thank you !
What do you do when you love Photography but seem to have lost the passion for it? I still love doing it but find it difficult to actually go out and shoot as I feel like I've done every picture/photo possible where I live. How do you keep the drive going? Is it inevitable that you lose the passion or is it just a "block"? Because I've had this block for four years if so...how do I get past it?
You mentioned a video you did about Bob Turseck (sp?) and book printing. I can't find it, and I'm hoping for some help. Can you link that?
This was great , more on street photography. (10mm)
who is a good book printer in canada, would you know?
8:00 Svetoslav’s book extremely reminiscent of OLYMPIC PORTRAITS by Annie Leibovitz. I wonder if he was inspired by her work.
For me, one of the best examples of narrative is James Nachtwey's Inferno. It breaks up into 9 chapters using Dante as a framing device for all the horror he's witnessed around the globe. It's rough, and if you can get through the book in one sitting you might be a sociopath.
Danke!
Thank YOU!
Nice :)
Did you ever get to chat with Abelardo Morrell?
Creating a narrative with nature or wildlife images can be a challenge.
Photo books are the hardest thing I have ever done. Attempting to have a narrative that is compelling takes mountains of talent and work. I tried to do a book on local parks and how the people interact with the park and each other. Disaster! Adding captions made it worse. . The book became a child's book .. see the people riding bikes, etc.. At least my 5 year old grandson enjoyed it! Your videos inspire me to keep trying.
I think this is a great comment (also the one referring to poetry and emotion). I am passionately interested in 60s style documentary as zines about my region where I have lived all my life. Having set a direction I try to curate images without any text to highlight and perhaps resolve the question raised. When I search "photography as narrative" on YT I get very little. Ted, I would value it if you are able to take this further, thank you, with great respect from New Zealand.
You are getting handsomer.. I like your beard
The editing is weird in this one Ted!
Pierszy
As a British Sab I'm horrified to see that barbaric sport being done in other countries.
Photography is so lame!! 😐👎🏿
Great video sir!