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Images Tell Stories’ Discuss There are several methods in which images are able to tell stories. This ranges from taking picture of an action, putting a chronological series of images together, like a comic or a story board, or taking a photograph of a still object. There are varying opinions to how true or accurate a story from pictures may be. This essay will discuss the different methods of creating of representing stories through pictures and how reliable a picture is at accounting events. The photograph is a moment in space and time. It is the photographer’s concept, not necessarily the viewers. How do you classify Kirlian photographs, photo grams or abstract works such as Vortographs, etc.? There are too many types of photos to be bound by your narrow interpretation of what constitutes the working precepts of a photograph. If you are only including documentary photography into this tiny definition, then yes, it can show a moment in space and time. Therefore if somebody takes a picture of a ball of yarn and its deterioration over a year it is likely tell a reliable story. As a photographer you are constantly manipulating the viewer. There are lighting techniques to make the object appear larger or smaller angles