Telling stories with pictures is not new. In the 1950s, Richard Avedon famously used a series of fashion photographs to construct fictional narratives, a technique affectionately depicted in the film “Funny Face,” in which Audrey Hepburn, posing for a fashion story inspired by “Anna Karenina,” asks the Avedon character, played by Fred Astaire, if she should throw herself in front of a train.
Photo Fiction: Tim Walker's Storyteller
Valerie Steele, The New York Times, November 30, 2012
