Tableau vivant, Folies Bergères c. 1920

Tableau Vivant (correct plural: Tableaux Vivants) is French for "living picture". The term describes a striking group of suitably costumed artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move. The approach thus marries the art forms of the stage with those of painting/photography, and as such it has been of interest to modern photographers. Folies Bergères Tableau Vivant, c. ... Folies Bergères Tableau Vivant, c. ... Costume, c. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ...

On a stage

Before radio, film and television, tableaux vivants were popular forms of entertainment. Before the age of colour reproduction of images the tableau vivant (often abbreviated simply to tableau) was sometimes used to recreate paintings "on stage", based on an etching or sketch of the painting. This could be done as an amateur venture in a drawing room, or as a more professionally produced series of tableaux presented on a theatre stage, one following another, usually to tell a story without requiring all the usual trappings of a "live" theatre performance. They thus 'educated' their audience to understand the form taken by later Victorian and Edwardian era magic lantern shows, and perhaps also sequential narrative comic strips. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... In British society, a drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... This page is about the archaic movie projector, for the US FBIs keystroke logger see Magic Lantern software The magic lantern or Laterna Magica was the ancestor of the modern slide projector. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...

Since stage censorship often strictly forbade actresses to move when nude or semi-nude on stage, tableaux vivants also had a place in presenting erotic entertainment at private clubs (e.g.: the Windmill Theatre) and fairground sideshows. This was superceded by colour pornographic magazines from around the mid 1950s. Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression, often by government intervention. ... Windmill Theatre, later the Windmill Club, was a famous theatre in London. ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφία pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn, porno, and more recently, pr0n) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...

In photography

Tableau vivant was an approach to picture-making taken up by early fine art photography, notable examples of which are Oscar Gustave Rejlander's Two Ways of Life (1857) and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's 'Xie' work with Alexandra Kitchin such as St. George and the Dragon (1875). Today, the approach is exemplified by fine art photographers such as Justine Kurland, Roger Ballen, Jan Saudek, and Bernard Faucon. Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints of pictures that are created to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional. ... Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Sweden 1813 – Clapham, London on 18 January 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer. ... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. ... Alexandra Xie Rhoda Kitchin ( 1864- 1925) was the favorite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), who photographed her around fifty times, from the age of four until around age 14. ... Justine Kurland (b. ... Zuzankas night Life Hey, Joe! Jan Saudek (b. ... Bernard Faucon (b. ...

It is sometimes called 'staged photography', but this is an imprecise term - since the simple posing of fashion models in the street is also 'staged photography'. Tableau vivant is a more precise term to use, if the staged picture obviously draws on the traditions and conventions of either the theatre or painting.

In film

Derek Jarman used the technique for some of his art films. So did Peter Greenaway. Derek Jarman Derek Jarman (January 31, 1942 - February 19, 1994) was a British film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. ... Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway (b. ...

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See also: Living statue and Agalmatophilia. The term living statue is often used to refer to a type of mime artist who poses like a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time. ... Agalmatophilia is an uncommon sexual fetish or paraphilia, also known as Pygmalionism after the myth of Pygmalion. ...