‘The Rake’s Progress’ (1733) by William Hogarth
Hogarth made a series of eight paintings which were published in a print form in 1735. The paintings were created to highlight the male superiority in comparison to women and to show the reality of life at the time. Each image has a meaning and tells a story about ‘The Rake’ who was originally a ‘man of leisure’ who had this all taken away from him. Hogarth contributed to the history of photography as he was one of the first painters to have create artwork exploiting how some men behave and the true superiority of men to women. Many artists were inspired by revealing the truth of reality and also started to create their own individual artwork.
My example of a photostory based around the words ‘Vanity/Pride’.

Duane Michals is an American photographer and also uses a series of photographs to tell a story. Duane Michals’ ‘narrative pieces rely on the sequencing of multiple images to convey a sense of alienation and disequilibrium’. The example above is named ‘The Bogeyman’ which gives rather a sinister tone to the images. The shadow of the coat in the photographs builds tension as you work through the images. The shadow of the coat is the main focus point of the image. However, the child who appears to be on the chair who is later abducted also foreshadows something is going to happen by the body language.

My example of a photo story is below, the word to describe the story throughout the images is ‘Vanity&Pride’. The images are supposed to portray how just one person who is swallowed in pride can influence others to then turn the same resulting in one becoming lonely due to becoming too self absorbed.