More on the role of photography in telling fictional and nonfictional visual stories

As I mentioned in last week’s post, we can use photography to document reality or tell make-believe visual stories. A new public art exhibition proves just that, I think. Its title reminds me of a #tbt art show featuring some of my photography work.

The recent Of Many Minds exhibition encapsulates both reality and fantasy, if you will, in a series of fifteen sculptures by artist Michael Alfano. The sculptures display fascinating faces that, placed on the Jersey City waterfront, frame the New York City skyline in fifteen unique ways. Some sculptures reveal themselves as we walk by them. Others move with the wind, showing themselves to us with each gentle breeze passing through them. It’s a mesmerizing experience watching those sculptures interact with us, imagining their stories, and, yes, using photography to bring their stories to life.

Here are a few examples:

As always, thanks for stopping by,

Alina Oswald