What are they?
A tableau vivant (often shortened to tableau, plural: tableaux vivants), French for ‘living picture’, is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. Tableau Photography is dependent on a defined NARRATIVE, theme or storyline.
Examples
Plan
- take photos conveying gender roles or gender differences
- have a male standing over a female just to suggest stereotypical/common ideology
- maybe have a woman cleaning and a man in the background?
- low lighting to suggest a dark and ominous setting
- mans head out of shot
- hard lighting from ring light
- woman in focus
- head height
Contact Sheet
Final Images
