Fabulous piece in The Guardian today by Paul Schrader discussing narrative and posing the question 'Have videogames and reality TV given us narrative exhaustion?'. For those of you who don't know the name, Schrader is a writer of some of the most iconic films of the 20th century, such as Taxi Driver, American Giggolo and Raging Bull.
Reading it got me to think that the same points are relevant to photography - that the average viewer has seen so much visual material that they already have 'boxes' in their mind to place it into and the value of originality, as well as "Write for formats based on predictability and repetition (soap operas, crime procedurals, superhero cartoons), repackage old plots with new stars and search for that elusive "original" twist that makes an old storyline fresh".
Sound familiar?
The full story can be found here.
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