It captures moments, awakens feelings and remains in our memory – a photography. 1826 is the year when everything changed. Frenchman Joseph Niepce took the first photo in the history of mankind with the help of “camera obscura”.
There are many types of photography, but Staged Photography, which we will talk about today, appeared as a genre, reached its greatest dawn in the 20th century, when technological progress began to develop more and more intensively. Unlike Candid photography, which captures something in the moment of filming, Staged photography is a planned shoot, where the photographer, like a director, stages everything in advance to have full control of all specific details of the shoot.
Attemps to create staged photos took place in the 19th century. At that period, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, later known as the founding father of artistic photography, created “The two ways of life”, an allegory between vice and virtue in the form of an old man leading two men from the village to the stage of life.
The second famous staged photography of that period was the work of the Henry Peach Robinson “Fading away”. He depicted a woman dying of tuberculosis or a broken heart as it is suggested in “She never confessed her love”, the Shakespearean title of the preliminary study.
The photographer who features celebrities in surreal reality. He started his career in the 1980s as a commercial photographer. In 1990s he became an artistic photographer, getting recognition for his colorful photos. David LaChapelle is known for his humor and satire in his works, covering the themes of sexuality, consumer culture etc.
The photographers represent a symbiosis of different trends: classical, romantic, modernist etc. The projects are inspired by famous painting and historical styles. Working together, they create a versatile world of their heroes.
A storyteller, a practical polymath, a former engineer, an educator – the mix of skills that led to the creation of the special heroes in special circonstances.
A Russian photographer who left photo shoots of weddings and made a steep transition to a staged photo shooting. She is not afraid to play with fire (literally and figuratively) and ready for any adventures for a smashing content.
An Iranian photographer and his mysterious staged photographs. We can only guess which meaning the photographer put into this photo shoot.
A Dutch artist and her transition from a painter into a photographer. She depicts real things which are not fully based on a reality.
