Do photographs tell stories?

Paul — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:10:10 +0000

Garry Winnogrand said that “photographs do not tell stories; they tell you what something looks like to a camera”. While I think that many times he is correct on this statement (at least in its most literal interpretation) I think the following picture DOES tell a story:

End or Beginning?, Brunswick, ME

The question is: what is the story?

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Do photographs tell stories?