Tableau Photography

タブロー写真 / 1970s / Style / Photography Movements

Assembles the scene before the shutter and holds it in a single print made to hang like a painting, its figures acting as if no viewer were there.

A single large print made to hang / Figures who never look back at you / Interiors and streets built to the last corner / Lighting borrowed from cinema

Tableau Photography — Cameron King Lear and His Three Daughters 1872 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0Tableau Photography — Staged portrait by F. Holland Day — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainTableau Photography — Cameron The Whisper of the Muse 1865 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain
Cameron King Lear and His Three Daughters 1872 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0 ／ Staged portrait by F. Holland Day — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain ／ Cameron The Whisper of the Muse 1865 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Restaging the conventions of advertising or news images to cast doubt on them · Building a story into one frame meant for exhibition, not for record
Type
Make the text in the frame as a prop rather than borrowing a typeface
Composition
Fix gaze and hand positions in advance and block the frame like a painting
Material
Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big
Caution
Staging that only imitates a natural record leaves the assumption that photographs record reality untouched, and the whole reason for constructing the scene disappears.
Further study
Cindy Sherman / Jeff Wall / Thomas Demand

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