Özet:

In recent years, the story has become an interesting topic in different fields of social sciences, in addition to literary theory. It has begun to be treated not only as a literary kind, but as a basic form of communication that makes human life meaningful. The increased interest in narrative approaches forms a part of the process called the linguistic return or cultural return in social sciences. The narrative return appeared as a result of many social and academic developments. With the death of the great stories, a consistent life story for the deep, fragmented and uncentric postmodern self has a critical importance. This situation has a significant impact on the increased interest in narrative in different disciplines. Photography has become a tool for autobiographical stories in daily life as it reaches an important part of society. With the digital revolution and other historical developments, photography has gained new qualities; it has become an important tool in the creation and transmission of personal stories. In this study that evaluates personal photographs as autobiographical stories, the transformation of the photo will be dealt with by a narrative approach. For this purpose, along with the digital revolution, the new approaches in the transformation and narrative theory of photography will be read from the same historical transformation.

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Özet:

In recent years, the narrative has become focus of interest in different fields of social sciences beyond the theory of literature. Narrative has been considered not only as literary genre but also as a basic form of communication that makes human life meaningful. The increasing interest in narrative approaches is a part of the process called the linguistic turn or cultural turn in social sciences. Narrative turn has emerged as a result of many social and academic developments. After the demise of the grand narratives, a coherent life narrative is of critical importance for depthless, fragmented, decentred postmodern self. This has had an important effect on the growing interest towards narrative in different disciplines. Photograph has become an important tool for autobiographical narratives in everyday life after it reached wide use in society. Along with the digital revolution and other historical developments, photography, with its new qualities, has become a more important tool in creating and communicating personal narratives. In this study, which evaluates personal photographs as autobiographical narratives, the transformation of the photographs will be studied with narrative approach. For this purpose, the transformation of photography and new approaches in narrative theory will be examined within the same historical context.