Tableau photography often know as tableau vivant (french for living picture) is a style of photography or art which shows a set up scene of people in a over dramatized location. Actors wear costumes to fit the scene and stand in a frozen position to imitate a moment frozen in time. dramatic lighting is often used to emphasis certain parts and to create different atmospheres. They often consist of scenes frozen in time and are commonly set to look as though they were in a different era.
a variety of tableau photo taken by various photographerstableau vivant photograph by Ryan Schude
Self Portrait:
A self portrait is a painting,drawing, sculpture or photograph of the person who made it,
Self portrait painted by Van Gogh.self portrait photos taken by Vivian Maier all of his reflection in different locations.
