Staged photography

[citation needed] American critic A. D. Coleman proposed the term directorial mode attempting to define the emerging genre in his 1976 article for Artforum magazine.

[3] Today the term is often used as a hyperonym for such picture-making (as opposed to picture-taking) concepts as fabricated, manipulated, creative, constructed, arranged, directorial, and tableau photography.

The exhibitions Staged Photo Events (1982) in the Lijnbaan Center in Rotterdam[5] and Fotografia Buffa (1986) in the Groninger Museum[6] were influential.

Well-known Dutch photographers who practice this genre are Rommert Boonstra, co-founder of the Rotterdam School, Teun Hocks, Pieter Laurens Mol, Paul de Nooijer and Erwin Olaf.

Other representatives of staged photography are Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jeff Wall, Bruce Charlesworth, Tono Stano, Nanna Bisp Büchert, Lis Steincke, and Joel-Peter Witkin.