These tableau vivant images, or living images are narrative filled. They are still scenes with activity and the sense of time passed. I find when i take pictures, i fit myself to the scene, i think I'd feel like i was cheating if i asked someone to pose for me. Plus, actors or not, i find people could never do exactly what i wanted them to, and I'd end up taking pictures of myself, which is even less ideal because i would be 100 times more critical. I enjoy the fluidity of a spontaneous picture, it may work, it may not. As soon as i put too much thought into a shot, i take rubbish pictures. I found this was so with the second image project (juxtaposed images). I was trying to hard to relate one picture to another, rather than just taking as many interesting images as possible.
The images journalists capture are perhaps a good combination of spontaneity and staging. They go to places where there will almost certainly be a photo opportunity and just click away, trigger happy. Compositionally the images may not be ideal, but this adds to the rich narrative these images often have.
Petros Giannakouris. The observers top 2o pics of the week. Taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/gallery/2012/sep/29/observer-20-photographs-of-week#/?picture=396893005&index=0
Ivan Avarado/ Reuters. Source : as above.
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